A short history of Campbell's primordial soup: In this essay we try to disclose some of the historical connections between the studies that have contributed to our current understanding of the emergence of catalytic RNA molecules and their components from an inanimate matter.

Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche Università della Tuscia Via San Camillo De Lellis 01100 Viterbo Italy

Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Královopolská 135 61265 Brno Czech Republic

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