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Could ecological roles offer clues to how life began?

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 26 Oct 2026, 21:40 UTC. The headline in use is “Could ecological roles offer clues to how life began?”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Producers, consumers, and decomposers play different roles in today's ecosystems. Thinking about these familiar roles led me to a question: Could their differences partly reflect the different physical and chemical environments in which early life developed?
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