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Martin Brasier, Richard Matthewman, and Sean McMahon, University of Oxford (U.K.), and David Wacey, University of Western Australia (Crawley), contend that pumice has “four remarkable properties” that would enable it to have had “a significant role in the origin of life and provided an important habitat for the earliest communities of microorganisms.” They describe those four properties in detail in the article “Pumice as a Remarkable Substrate for the Origin of Life.”

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