Mineral cells might have incubated first living things.
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Martin, W. & Russell, M. On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes,and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, published online, doi:10.1098/rstb.2002.1183 (2002).
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Whitfield, J. New theory for origin of life. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news021202-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news021202-2