Curated paths / Across subjects

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Living things / What happened next

When did life begin? How tiny cells changed a planet

The oldest surviving traces, experimentally possible processes and reconstructed common ancestors answer different questions. Life’s origin remains unresolved, while multiple kinds of evidence reveal how microbes changed planetary chemistry and how associations between cells shaped new ways of living.

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