Evidence of life in Earth's oldest rocks

Abigail C. Allwood ()
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Abigail C. Allwood: Abigail C. Allwood is at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA.

Nature, 2016, vol. 537, issue 7621, 500-501

Abstract: When did life first arise on Earth? Analysis of ancient rocks in Greenland that contain structures interpreted as bacterial in origin suggest that Earth might have been an abode for life much earlier than previously thought. See Letter p.535

Date: 2016
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