What is the role of Clay and Photosynthesis in Evolution?
There is a fancy yet interesting hypothesis about clay playing a role in chemical evolution. Clay cristals replicate, they seed other clay cristals of their kind. If those cristals happen to pick up certain molecules due to their shape, they could have started some kind of evolution and have gotten started the actual molecules. But as I said, that’s just a hypothesis. Photosynthesis was first developed by bacteria and later plants. In the beginning, oxygen was actually poisoneous to most life, but life adapted. The filling of the athmosphere with oxygen opened the way for large land animals which could not have evolved otherwise.
