page_title: PAH world hypothesis
hierarchical_section_title: PAH world hypothesis
caption_attribution_description: English: Self made drawing of the PAH world assembly hypothesis.
context_page_description: The PAH world hypothesis is a speculative hypothesis that proposes that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, known to be abundant in the universe, including in comets, and assumed to be abundant in the primordial soup of the early Earth, played a major role in the origin of life by mediating the synthesis of RNA molecules, leading into the RNA world. However, as yet, the hypothesis is untested.
context_section_description: The PAH world hypothesis is a speculative hypothesis that proposes that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), known to be abundant in the universe, including in comets, and assumed to be abundant in the primordial soup of the early Earth, played a major role in the origin of life by mediating the synthesis of RNA molecules, leading into the RNA world. However, as yet, the hypothesis is untested.
caption: A PAH stack assembling
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