The dominant theory of life’s abiogenetic emergence on the planet remains the idea that it took place in a watery womb. Certainly, prokaryotic, eukaryotic, and other forms of rudimentary life first most likely evolved in aquatic contexts, from which their distant descendants eventually made their way to land (though some eventually returned). That is wh…
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