ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2026
The Emergence of an Urable Earth: How Early Planetary Evolution Shaped the Chemical Window for Life's Origin.
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Earth's early history provides the only natural record for evaluating how planetary evolution can generate environments capable of initiating life. Here we review early Earth evolution through the lens of urability: the time-dependent capacity of planetary environments to support prebiotic chemistry progressing toward compartmentalized, self-propagating, information-bearing systems. We argue that urability is not a single globally habitable state, but a transient overlap among several coupled dimensions: liquid water availability, permissive temperature, ocean pH and salinity, access to bioessential elements, atmospheric shielding and volatile retention, and exposed or shallow environments that enable concentration, mineral catalysis, and wet-dry cycling. During the Hadean-early Archean transition, these dimensions were shaped by magma-ocean degassing, late accretion history, atmospheric compositional evolution from CO
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