The oldest biological microstructures that we've found are from Australia and Greenland. However, it would be overly simplistic to state that life arose specifically in one of these two locations. The reason we have evidence of the first life forms in these areas is because these are the areas where we happen to have the oldest rocks. Also, theory kind of suggests that it's not really accurate to think of abiogenesis as happening "in one place". As Evan Thompson states in Mind in Life, the origin of life is best thought of as a planetary process. Trying to recreate abiogenesis in a laboratory has been a long and difficult process. No one has ever actually re-created life in a laboratory. Chris Impey states in The Living Cosmos that we have only been able to produce a few simple amino acids - which are millions of atoms less complex than even the simplest of cells. So that is the frontier contemporary chemists and biologists are trying to advance.Where is it thought that life on Earth first took root?
How do they try to simulate that?