<story><title>Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-charles-darwin-early-life-theory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cblconfederate</author><text>for those impatient like me (aaargh!):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Darwin was proposing that life began, not in the open ocean, but in a smaller body of water on land, which was rich in chemicals</text></comment>
<story><title>Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-charles-darwin-early-life-theory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rtx</author><text>When I learnt about all the great scientist in school I was  always amazed by their brilliance. However I always felt something was missing, what was so different about them that they were able to achieve so much.&lt;p&gt;Even though I had heard Newton&amp;#x27;s quote about standing on shoulder of giants I was never able to understand it fully till much later.&lt;p&gt;All these brilliant discovery had a thread going back to the beginning of our civilization.</text></comment>