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It is speculated that life originated in a small, shallow body of water containing concentrated prebiotic organic feedstocks, inorganic compounds, and catalytic agents in a diversity of microenvironments. This pond was formed by an improbable, fortuitous soft-landing of a cometary nucleus, or fragment thereof, on the surface of a suitable planet with an atmosphere in an appropriate thermodynamic state, such as Earth.
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Clark, B.C. Primeval procreative comet pond. Origins Life Evol Biosphere 18, 209–238 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01804671
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