Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

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Stromatolite fossils formed around 3,700 million years ago in what is now Greenland predate the previous oldest fossil evidence for life on Earth by more than 200 million years.

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7621/full/nature19355.html
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22/09/2016