Life and Rocks May Have Co-Evolved on Earth

Perhaps your pet rock has a little more life than you thought.

smithsonianmag.com

At a Christmas party ten years ago, an idea was brewing in Robert Hazen’s mind. Hazen was a self-proclaimed “hard core” mineral physicist at the time, and like most scientists (and players of 20 Questions), he considered mineral to be a totally separate beast from animal and vegetable. But that was soon to change.

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