Category: Soviet Studies (1917-1991)

The complex combination of manifestations and properties characteristic of life must have arisen as a part of the process of the evolution of matter.’ He asserted that basic organic chemicals might have formed into microscopic localized systems, from which primitive living things could have developed at a very early time in the planet’s existence when conditions were very different to today. Highly volatile and dangerous conditions, according to Alexander Oparin, are exactly the conditions within which amino acids could be produced. Amino acids are protein building blocks of all life. Alexander Oparin went on to develop the field industrial biochemistry for the Soviet State, whilst his earlier work was left unfinished. Alexander Oparin speculated that organic life was a product of natural events and had nothing to do with any form of divine intervention.