3.42-billion-year-old fossil threads may be the oldest
known archaea microbes. The structure and chemistry
of the filaments hints that they may be ancient cells.
By Carolyn Wilke, Science News, July 26, 2021
[www.sciencenews.org]

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Russell, M.J., Bailo, E., Canteri, R., Enrico, E., Manceau,
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[advances.sciencemag.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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