“生命的起源”是苏联著名的生物学家勒柏辛斯卡娅写的一本通俗读物。在这本书里,她介绍了她自己三十年来在细胞学研究方面所得到的成果和创见;叙述了她怎样经过革命的斗争,走入科学的领域;而在科学的研究中,又怎样发挥革命斗争的精神,发现动物细胞的细胞膜,摧毁微耳和派的反动学说,建立起“细胞起源於生活物质”的辩证唯物主义的学说。勒柏辛斯卡娅出身在帝俄时代一个资产阶级家庭里。在生活中,她看到了矿工们的苦难,看到了矿工们在那“黑暗,微微闪烁着的冒着烟的小灯,污泥,水洼,又黏又湿的过道墙壁,异常闷热的空气……在十分钟里面,……衣服就被潮湿透了”的可怕的地下,连续地做上十个到十二个钟头的苦工,这些,在她年轻的、 The Origin of Life is a popular book written by Lebensinskaya, a famous Soviet biologist. In this book, she introduces the achievements and innovations she has gained in cytogenetic research over the past thirty years, describes how she went through revolutionary struggles and entered the realm of science. In the study of science, how We should give full play to the spirit of the revolutionary struggle, discover the cell membrane of animal cells, destroy the reactionary doctrines of micro-ears and factions and establish the dialectical materialistic doctrine that “cells originate from living material.” Lebysinskaya was born in a bourgeois family of the era of Emperor Russia. In her life she saw the misery of the miners and saw the miners in their "dark, slightly glowing little lights, mud, puddles, sticky and wet aisle walls, unusually hot air ... ten to twelve hours of hard work in a row on the terrible underground of ... the clothes are damp in ten minutes,