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Selenium isotope data suggest potential earlier appearance of eukaryotes

In a new PNAS paper co-authored by Andrey Bekker (UCR), new selenium isotope data suggest expansion of suboxic marine environments that may have allowed the first origins of eukyarotic evolution. The study shows geochemical evidence for suboxia more than two billion years ago, though the oldest fossil evidence is found more than one billion years...
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