Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.
  • BlackLaZoR@kbin.run
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    2 个月前

    It was grabbing a toehold even when our world was a literal hellscape.

    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