What if life did not emerge from one universal environment—but from a mosaic of distinct environmental structures?
Hydrothermal vents may have been only one node in a distributed landscape of early metabolic roles.

Rethinking hydrothermal vents: a structural ecology perspective on the early emergence of metabolic functions
https://zenodo.org/records/20148827

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