Scientists have suggested that life began in hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, but a 2012 study suggests that inland pools of condensed and cooled geothermal vapor have the ideal characteristics for the origin of life.
Os científicos suxeriron que a vida empezou en chemineas hidrotermais no mar profundo, pero un estudo de 2012 suxeriu que as pozas continentais de vapor xeotermal arrefriado ou condensado teñen as características ideais para orixinar a vida.