The history of multi-cellular life has just doubled or tripled to 1.2b-1.8b years ago.
An oxygen-poor Earth held many more Eucaryotes than previously believed. This has profound implications for finding exotic life on other worlds with similar conditions.
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)