The leading theory of how life began just hit a snag

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How and where life first emerged on Earth is one of the great unsolved puzzles for scientists exploring the possibility of life on other worlds. For the past decade or so, the prevailing theory has been that the first primitive organisms originated at alkaline hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean. Now, a new paper by Benjamin Tutolo from the University of Calgary in Canada, published in the…

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