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Abstract editorial illustration accompanying the article: Earth’s earliest clues and lab chemistry suggest no single place made life

Earth’s earliest clues and lab chemistry suggest no single place made life

A review of evidence from Earth’s Hadean era and experiments on prebiotic chemistry finds that no single environment on early Earth appears to meet all the conditions needed for life to begin. Instead, the paper argues that multiple, connected processes across different settings likely helped build and stabilize the molecules that later became biology.

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