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Finding microbes may not sound like much. But they were the first form of Earth life eons before plants and animals existed. If scientists find these tiny germs in Lake Vostok, it bolsters already strong hope that elsewhere in our solar system, life also might exist where once it didn't seem possible... But that's a big deal because microbes evolve. For 90 percent of the time that life existed on Earth, there were only microbes, said Bruce Jakosky, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado. Microbes are 'where we come from,' he said. Jakosky and McKay said it also could eventually mean that life started in more than one place in the universe. 'If there's microbial life widespread throughout the galaxy, that increases the chances that there's intelligent life elsewhere,' Jakosky said. |
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