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Where did global evolution begin?

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In the opinion of the author, the emergence of life on our planet was not a single act but a predetermined evolutionary stage caused by interaction between water and endogenous rocks. Living systems merely inherited the evolutionary mechanisms of nonliving systems, namely, of the water-rock system.

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Original Russian Text © S.L. Shvartsev, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 235–244.

Stepan L’vovich Shvartsev, Dr. Sci. (Geol.-Mineral.), is director of the Tomsk affiliate of the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, RAS Siberian Branch..

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Shvartsev, S.L. Where did global evolution begin?. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 173–182 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610020097

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