Figure 2From: On the origin of life in the Zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on EarthA schematic representation of interweaved haloes made of porous ZnS/MnS (shown as aggregates of grey spheres) around the sub-aerial, hydrothermal hot springs. These networks are proposed to have served as the Earth's first biotopes (see the text and the accompanying article [97]). The picture uses data from refs.[66, 105, 115, 117, 260, 261].Back to article page