The habitat and nature of early life

By Euan G. Nisbet, N. Sleep. Nature, 2001

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Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining on Microbial Ecosystem Services (2018, background): “Furthermore, the isolation of 308 deep-sea vents from the surface would have enabled them to act as refugia for early lifeforms 309 when conditions at the surface of the planet were not hospitable (Nisbet and Sleep, 2001).”
Origins of building blocks of life: A review (2017, background): “Additionally, although thermophiles near the hydrothermal systems distribute at the deepest branches of the phylogenetic tree, it is conceivable that they are not the universal ancestor, but only the survivors from early Archean hightemperature regimes generated by severe impact events (Miller and L”
The origin and evolution of model organisms (2002, background): “For some, this fuelled speculation that life might have arisen at hydrothermal vents, whereas others found it consistent with an early hot Earth environment and the survival of gigantic, ocean-boiling asteroid effect”
Algae-bacteria interactions: Evolution, ecology and emerging applications. (2016, background): “But whether life originated in oceans (Nisbet and Sleep, 2001), hydrothermal vents (Martin et al., 2008), rock environment or anoxic terrestrial geothermal ﬁ elds (Mulkidjanianet al., 2012) is a question under serious debate.”
The naked planet Earth: Most essential pre-requisite for the origin and evolution of life (2013, background): “…experiments have been performed which revealed the importance of catalyzers, role of nutrients, and physical and chemical environments on the primordial Earth to bear life (e.g., Dyson, 1982; Nisbet et al., 1995; Nisbet and Sleep, 2001; Nisbet, 2002; Russell and Arndt, 2005; Russell, 2007).”
On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells. (2003, background): “(d ) Electron micrograph of a structure formed in the laboratory by injecting Na 2 S solution (500 mM, representing hydrothermal fluid) into FeCl 2 solution (500 mM, representing the iron-bearing Hadean ocean) (Russell & Hall 1997).”
The Sun in Time: Activity and Environment (2007, background): “ Sackmann and Boothroyd 2003). Sedimentary rocks (Bowring et al., 1989) and indirect evidence of microbial life in rock dated to 3.8Gyr ago (Mojzsis et al. 1996; see also summaries by Nisbet 2000 and Nisbet and Sleep 2001) clearly suggest the presence of liquid water (see also Kasting and 72 Toon, 1”
The antiquity of microbial sulfate reduction (2004, background): “Accordingly, less oxidative weathering of sulfides and thus low concentrations of seawater sulfate would be consistent with lower levels of atmospheric oxygen (Cameron, 1982; Hayes et al., 1992; Knoll and Canfield, 1998).”
Astrobiology: The Study of the Living Universe (2005, background): “It is unclear whether this means that life originated in such environments (Nisbet & Sleep 2001).”
The pH of Enceladus’ ocean (2015, background): “The 3.8 Ga Isua supercrustal belt of Western Greenland is an example of such an ancient environment that has features consistent with serpentinization and isotopic evidence for H2-utilizing microbial communities (Nisbet and Sleep, 2001; Friend et al., 2002; Sleep et al., 2011).”
The faint young Sun problem (2012, background): “…the evolution of Earth’s atmosphere and climate [Pollack , 1991; Kasting , 1993; Shaw , 2008; Nisbet and Fowler , 2011], life on the early Earth [Nisbet and Sleep, 2001], evolution of the terrestrial planets and considerations of planetary habitability [Pollack , 1979; Rampino and Caldeira,…”
Mechanisms of soil acidification reducing bacterial diversity (2015, background): “It is generally agreed that all terrestrial ecosystems and their biological components are originated from the ocean (Nisbet and Sleep, 2001; Martin et al., 2008).”