Big News: The Plausibility of Abiogenesis Has Been Experimentally Demonstrated (opens in new tab)

From earliest recorded history mankind has wondered how life on earth first arose. The current diversity of life on earth is spectacularly well-explained by Darwinian (or Dawkinsian) evolution, the process of replication with random variation plus natural selection. Things that are better at making copies of themselves make more copies. What makes something better at