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Jamie Elsila

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Rethinking the Search for the Origins of Life

by Dustin Trail, Jamie Elsila, Ulrich F. Müller, Timothy Lyons and Karyn L. Rogers 4 February 20224 May 2022

Early Earth conditions and the chemistry that led to life were inextricably interwoven. Earth scientists and prebiotic chemists are working together in new ways to understand how life first emerged.

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