Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates

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Although it is not known when or where life on Earth began, some of the earliest habitable environments may have been submarine-hydrothermal vents. Here we describe putative fossilized microorganisms that are at least 3,770 million and possibly 4,280 million years old in ferruginous sedimentary rocks,

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Title: Nature

Abbreviated Title: Nature

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISSN (Print): 0028-0836

ISSN (Electronic): 1476-4687

Publication date Created: March 1 2017

Publication date (Print): March 1 2017

Volume: 543

Issue: 7643

Pages: 60-64

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DOI: 10.1038/nature21377

PubMed ID: 28252057

SO-VID: 6e5680f9-2591-4f06-9377-a47aa1a83bea

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