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r00fus ◴[] No.41873764[source]
There's a theory that life actually originated not directly through photosynthesis based life, but originally from a very constant source of energy - the earth's crust - Hyperthermophile archaea - using non-oxygen based metabolism which migrated to the surface where photosynthesis evolved and took over as the core energy source.

All laid out in Paul Davies' book - fascinating read: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fifth-Miracle/Pau...

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1. polishdude20 ◴[] No.41873845[source]
Similar to Nick Lane's work!
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2. vibrio ◴[] No.41878815[source]
Oxygen is a great book that covers a lot of this from geology to microbiology to chemistry.