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Re: What did the first Organic Thingamadoodle eat?
Paul Ciszek (pciszek@nyx10.cs.du.edu)
16 Dec 1996 22:31:52 -0700
rcarlsen@macconnect.com (Robert S. Carlsen) writes:
>How about photosynthesis for starters.
No, photosytheis came later. The current theory is that the first life
forms got energy from chemical reactions; the oldest "domain" of living
things, Archaea (sp?) includes the microbes that live in sea-floor volcanic
vents and are sometimes found deep in bedrock. It is a lot easier to
come up with ways that life could have gotten OUT of the volcanic vents
than to come up with ways that life could have gotten IN.
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