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The dynamic nature of the planet earth is likely what drove the evolutionary changes to develop the highly complex life today. In the most stable period of eart
by JohnMakin 2y ago
The dynamic nature of the planet earth is likely what drove the evolutionary changes to develop the highly complex life today. In the most stable period of earth’s history, the so called “boring billion,” (Mid Proterozoic) a period of a billion years of a stable environment resulted in extremely slow evolutionary advancements. This period interestingly was bordered by two oxygenation events, the first being the topic of this thread.
- Cacti 2y agoThis sounds right, but it is speculative at best. If anything it just goes to show how complex the modern cell is and how long it took to assemble all the right pieces.
- JohnMakin 2y agoLike anything else on this topic it is a hypothesis and nothing new: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22695-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22695-x