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Published online 4 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021202-2
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New theory for origin of life
Mineral cells might have incubated first living things.
Life on Earth may have begun in rocks on the ocean floor. More than 4 billion years ago, tiny cavities in minerals may have served as the first cells, two biologists are proposing1.
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