There’s an interesting idea that life began around hydrothermal vents in the ocean, and that cavities in the vent mound could have created the enclosure which c

There’s an interesting idea that life began around hydrothermal vents in the ocean, and that cavities in the vent mound could have created the enclosure which contained the biological molecules, prior to the evolution of the cell membrane I like to think of this as meaning there may have been networks of biological molecules evolving metabolism networks perhaps for hundreds of millions of years before the first cell, and that perhaps both metabolism and viruses predate the cell