Protein adaptation shows that life on early earth lived in a hot, acidic environment

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:40 in Biology & Nature

A new study reveals that a group of ancient enzymes adapted to substantial changes in ocean temperature and acidity during the last four billion years, providing evidence that life on Early Earth evolved from a much hotter, more acidic environment to the cooler, less acidic global environment that exists today...

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