Protocell hydrothermal vents. Artwork of bubbles rising upwards from white smoker hydrothermal vents. These bubbles are being used to represent and indicate the origin of protocells in the early history of life on Earth. This can represent the unicellular Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA),around 3.5 to 3.6 billion years ago during the Paleoarchean era. It is thought that deep seabed hydrothermal vents provided ideal conditions for the origin of life. Magma (molten rock) near the surface heated water that dissolved mineral salts. As this met the cold surrounding water,the minerals rapidly precipitated out,producing the 'smoke',here light-coloured (white smokers) | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Bizley, Richard |
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