... 20 July 2008 Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments Julius S. Lipp 1, Yuki Morono 2, Fumio Inagaki 2 & Kai-Uwe Hinrichs 1 1) Organic Geochemistry Group, Department of Geosciences and MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, PO Box 330 440, 28334 Bremen, Germany 2) Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core ...

... and environmental change, an international team of scientists from Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined changes in the geochemistry and fossil distribution of 635- to 551-million-year old sediments preserved in the Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area of South China. Millions of years ago, the ...

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...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life which cites a really good article at: Martin, W. and Russell M.J. (2002). "On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological sciences 358: 59-85. -- Joe Legris