GeekooCould Earth's early soda lakes have been the birthplace of life? Discover how phosphorus-rich environments may have sparked the first biological molecules. #OriginOfLife #SodaLakes #PrebioticChemistry
Matt WillemsenPrimordial Beginnings: How Soda Lakes May Have Cradled Early Life
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Primordial Beginnings: How Soda Lakes May Have Cradled Early Life
A study suggests that soda lakes, characterized by high levels of dissolved sodium and carbonate, might have provided the right conditions for the first cells. These early cells may have been composed of RNA inside lipid membranes. But RNA function requires divalent cations such as Mg2+, which di
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Shallow #SodaLakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth https://phys.org/news/2024-01-shallow-soda-lakes-cradles-life.html
Biogeochemical explanations for the world’s most phosphate-rich lake, an origin-of-life analog https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01192-8
"You have this seemingly dry salt flat, but there are nooks and crannies. And between the salt and the sediment there are little pockets of water that are really high in dissolved #phosphate. When could this happen on the #AncientEarth, in order to provide a cradle for the #OriginOfLife?"
Shallow soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth
Charles Darwin proposed that life could have emerged in a "warm little pond" with the right cocktail of chemicals and energy. A study from the University of Washington, published this month in Communications Earth & Environment, reports that a shallow "soda lake" in western Canada shows promise for matching those requirements. The findings provide new support that life could have emerged from lakes on the early Earth, roughly 4 billion years ago.