Reviving the Primordial Earth – Geobiological Perspectives on the Origin of Life

Reviving the Primordial Earth – Geobiological Perspectives on the Origin of Life

Author(s): Jan-Peter Duda

Publication: Bunsen-Magazin 2022, 4, 133-136

Publisher: Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie e.V., Frankfurt

Language: English

DOI: 10.26125/083d-tb40

Abstract: The Earth is truly a living planet: Ever since life began, our ~4.6 billion-years (Ga) old planet has been shaped by complex interactions between living and non-living matter. This contribution briefly highlights how we reconstruct primordial worlds by examining rocks from the juvenile Earth (>3.4 Ga), what we currently (think to) know about earliest life on our planet, and how this contributes to the ongoing quest for understanding the origins of life.

Cite this: Jan-Peter Duda, Bunsen-Magazin 2022, 4, 133-136, DOI: 10.26125/083d-tb40​​​​​​​

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