Origin Of Life: Which Ancient Minerals?
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 08:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Life grew as a result of natural processes that used Earth's raw materials. Models of life's origins almost always look to minerals for such essential tasks as the synthesis of life's molecular building blocks or the supply of metabolic energy, but this assumes that the mineral species found on Earth today are much the same as they were during Earth's first 550 million years — the Hadean Eon — when life emerged. A new analysis of Hadean mineralogy published in American Journal of Science read more