The young Earth might not have been hot enough for long enough to account for life as we know it.
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Sleep,N. H.,Zahnle, K. & Neuhoff, P. S. Initiation of clement surface conditions on the earliest Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98,3666- 3672 2001.
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Ball, P. Hot flush over in a flash. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010404-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news010404-5