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means The natural process by which life first arose from non-living chemical matter, long before anything was alive to witness it.

from Built from Greek a- ('not'), bios ('life'), and genesis ('origin, coming into being') — so literally 'coming-into-being not from life.' The term was popularized in the 1870s by biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, who used it to argue against the older idea of spontaneous generation (maggots from meat, mice from grain), while still pointing to a deeper question: how did the very first life emerge from lifeless chemistry at all.