Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown
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A 'lost world' of early microbes thrived one billion years ago
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1.6-billion-year-old steroid fossils hint at a lost world of
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Earth's surface oxygenation and the rise of eukaryotic life: Relationships to the Lomagundi positive carbon isotope excursion revisited - ScienceDirect
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Unraveling the Tree of Life
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Frontiers A Briefly Argued Case That Asgard Archaea Are Part of the Eukaryote Tree
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Insights into eukaryogenesis from the fossil record
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Primordial Life: Scientists Discover “Lost World” of Our Early
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This 'lost world' reveals a new chapter in the evolution of life
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Organically-preserved multicellular eukaryote from the early