Mystery AtlasHydrothermal Vent Hypothesis
The hypothesis that life began at deep-sea alkaline hydrothermal vents, where mineral-rich, energy-generating chemical gradients could have driven the earliest metabolic reactions before genetic molecules like RNA were involved.
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Theories & Explanations
Hydrothermal Vent Hypothesis is frequently compared to RNA World Hypothesis — Often discussed as complementary rather than strictly rival: vent chemistry may have supplied the setting in which self-replicating RNA later emerged.
Science & Technology
Hydrothermal Vent Hypothesis attempts to explain Abiogenesis.