DOTR
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Have you read Nick Lane? If not then get to reading. He’s a little bit dense for popular science writings but not so much as to put him out of reach.
His theory is undersea vents. Makes a very thorough case for the first cells forming in olivine cavities.
Not only that but he describes the many filters life went through on its way to where we are now. The odds are stupendous for each of a long series of unique events...the endosymbiotic event for instance....each one as necessary as the origination event and each one as crazily unlikely.
But they each happened obviously.