Woese C R
J Mol Evol. 1979 Jul 18;13(2):95-101. doi: 10.1007/BF01732865.
The widely accepted Oparin thesis for the origin and early evolution of life seems sufficiently far from the true state of affairs as to be considered incorrect. It is proposed that life on earth actually arose in the planet's atmosphere, however an atmosphere very different from the present one. Because of an extremely warm surface, the early earth may have possessed no liquid surface water, its water being partitioned between a motten crust and a fairly dense atmosphere. Early preliving systems are taken to arise in the droplet phase in such an atmosphere. The early earth, which resembled Venus then and to some extent now, underwent a transition to its present condition largely as a result of the evolution of methanogenic metabolism.
被广泛接受的关于生命起源和早期演化的奥帕林假说，似乎与实际情况相去甚远，以至于可被认为是不正确的。有人提出，地球上的生命实际上起源于地球的大气层，不过那是一种与当前大气层截然不同的大气层。由于早期地球表面极度温暖，可能不存在液态地表水，其水分分布在熔融的地壳和相当浓厚的大气层之间。早期的前生命系统被认为是在这样一种大气层的液滴相中产生的。早期的地球那时类似于金星，现在在某种程度上也类似，它向当前状态的转变主要是甲烷生成代谢演化的结果。
