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Origins of life: new evidence first cells could have formed at the bottom of the ocean

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-11-07

Where did life come from? In recent years, many scientists have shifted from favouring a "primordial soup" in pools of water to hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean as the original source of life on Earth. But one of the biggest problems with this idea is that researchers have been unable to recreate in the lab one of the key processes that would have been involved if this theory was true.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-11-life-evidence-cells-bottom-ocean.html