Life on Earth originated in volcanic geysers.
In the recent years, evolutionary biologists have made conclusions about how I could Harbor life. According to scientists, it could not be shown the Earth’s oceans and land surface, the vents of geysers and volcanoes in the nearby lakes.
The work of scientists published in the journal Nature Microbiology.
Deep analysis of ancient genes in the genomes of living organisms has shown that the so-called tribe of “Onion”, which is the common ancestor of all present organisms lived in the warm, completely oxygen-free, water rich in minerals. We are talking about hot geysers, or volcanic lakes. On land at that time was attended by a number of important elements, including molybdenum, nitrogen and boron, which were very few in the “soup” primary world ocean.
A distinguished geneticist William Martin, working at the University of Dusseldorf (Germany), said that he and his partners managed to find traces of what the first organism on the planet Earth, which scientists around the world called “Luca” (Last Universal Common Ancestor – last universal ancestor), could live in volcanic geysers or lakes. The analysis helped the researchers to highlight the traits possessed by “Luke”. This gave the opportunity to understand where he could dwell in a 3.5-3.3 billion years ago when life appeared.
