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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Life may have emerged on Earth in one of these two possible ways, scientists say

Life on Earth may have first emerged from complex chemical reactions in two different ways near a deep-sea hot spring, a new study claims.

One of the biggest mysteries rattling the scientific community is to understand where and how life first emerged on the planet from a primordial soup of non-living chemicals.

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