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Oxygen in the atmosphere makes a fresh origin of life impossible, which is why life cannot be starting over in hydrothermal vents today.

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  1. Nick Lane

    Biochemist and Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at…

    It’s possible it started multiple occasions. There’s two provisos to that. One of them is oxygen makes it impossible really for life to start. So, as soon as we’ve got oxygen in the atmosphere, then life isn’t going to keep starting over.

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