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Did life on Earth emerge from oceans, or from land that featured wet-dry cycles? Scientists who support the idea of a terrestrial beginning say it offers a solution to a long-recognized paradox: that although water is essential for life, it is also destructive to life’s core components. Moran Frenkel-Pinter, a research scientist with Georgia Tech's Center for Chemical Evolution, gives her take on the new theories.
