Primordial Soup (IMAGE)

ETH Zurich

Primordial Soup

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Lakes in volcanic surroundings could have been the breeding ground for the first biochemical compounds around 4 to 4.5 billion years ago.

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Illustration: Dhilung Kirat/Wikimedia, ETH Zurich

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