Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils

作者: Martin D. Brasier , Owen R. Green , Andrew P. Jephcoat , Annette K. Kleppe , Martin J. Van Kranendonk

DOI: 10.1038/416076A

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摘要: Structures resembling remarkably preserved bacterial and cyanobacterial microfossils from ∼3,465-million-year-old Apex cherts of the Warrawoona Group in Western Australia 1 , 2 , 3 , …

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