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clay, role in prebiotic evolution



Haldane and, more recently, Cairns-Smith, have been among those to promote the idea that clay minerals may have played a vital role in the manufacture of large prebiotic molecules – their lattice structures acting as templates for the organization of organic matter into polymers.


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