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Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, according to new research. This shows that life could develop on Earth-like plane ...
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- 1 2 Lightning strikes played a vital role in life's origins on Earth Date: The team estimate that phosphorus minerals made by lightning strikes surpassed those from meteorites when the earth was around 3.5 billion years old, which is about the age of the earliest known micro-fossils, making lightning strikes significant in the emergence of life on the planet.
- University of Leeds.
- ( Lightning strikes played a vital role in life's origins on Earth.