Early 'soda lakes' behind origin of life on Earth?
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The first life-forms on Earth required certain ingredients to exist, but one of those, mineral phosphorus, has long baffled scientists. Nobody knows how phosphorus, one of the 6 main chemical elements of life, came on early Earth to support life. Now, scientists are saying lakes thrived in dry locations on early Earth might have served a key role in supplying phosphorus, a scarce mineral in Earth's primordial soup.