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FOR a long time now the idea has prevailed that life began in the sea or in the mud of the seashore, and many interesting articles have been written to describe the emigration of sea-creatures and water-creatures to the land, but there are some difficulties in the way of this theory which do not seem to have been noticed, and on broad general grounds it is, perhaps, more probable that life began on mountaintops.
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MACFIE, R. Where did Terrestrial Life Begin?. Nature 109, 107 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109107a0
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