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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought. (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

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