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Doris Elín Urrutia

New Discovery Reveals the Oldest-known Ancestor of Complex Life


The molecular remains of a microbe called protosterol biota appeared within the Barney Creek Formation in Australia’s Northern Territory — and those traces could hold information on the origin of complex life on Earth.

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