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posted 20. November 2005 08:09

Researchers uncover ‘primordial womb’ in ocean depths

Source: ASU Insight - ASU's News and Information Centre

Michael Price, mbprice@asu.edu
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November 15, 2005

ASU geochemist Lynda Williams and her colleagues have discovered that certain clay minerals under conditions at the bottom of the ocean may have acted as incubators for the first organic molecules on earth^.

The results of Williams’ experiments were published in an article, “Organic Molecules Formed in a ‘Primordial Womb,’ ” in the November issue of Geology. Williams’ research posits how some of the fundamental materials necessary for life might have come into existence ^ deep below the sea.

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