News tagged with multicellular life
550 million years ago rise in oxygen drove evolution of animal life
Researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered a clue that may help to explain why the earliest evidence of complex multicellular animal life appears around 550 million years ago, when atmospheric ...
Dec 17, 2010 |
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The fuel of evolution: A new hypothesis about how complex life emerged on Earth
When life on Earth first emerged about 4 billion years ago, it was simple by today's standards.
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Oxygen fuels the fires of time
Variations in the Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels are thought to be closely linked to the evolution of life, with strong feedbacks between uni- and multicellular life and oxygen. Over the past 400 million years the level ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 02, 2010 |
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How did higher life evolve? Scientists determine the complete genome sequence of brown alga
With the world's first complete sequencing of a brown algal genome, an international research team has made a big leap towards understanding the evolution of two key prerequisites for higher life on Earth ...
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Analysis knocks down theory on origin of cell structure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how living cells originated and evolved into their present forms remains a fundamental research area in biology, one boosted in recent years by the introduction of new tools ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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