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       We still don't know where life came from. What was the series of events that turned a soup of organic molecules into the first self-replicating organism that could then go on to take over our planet? In a new paper, Dr. David Kipping uses Bayesian analysis to calculate the odds of life emerging quickly on a suitable planet versus it taking a long time (fast versus slow abiogenesis). David finds that several lines of evidence push the likelihood that life emerged quickly.https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05993