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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

23 April 2018

Earth’s air suddenly got a lot more oxygen around 1.6 billion years ago and that could have triggered the evolution of large multicellular organisms

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