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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
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2024-11-11
Actually this makes sense in the context of autocatalytic sets hypothesis - you'd need large variety of inorganic compounds and a strong energy gradient to kickstart a metabolism.
There's great video on the subject from Sabine Hossenfelder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yOiZLHDV3U
Part I'm talking about starts at 15:48