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eppur_se_muova

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3. Thanks! The photos are not that impressive, but the oldest microfossils seldom are.

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Thu Nov 9, 2023, 10:34 PM

Nov 2023

However, the accompanying text reads almost like a legal argument, as they attempt to establish the validity of the evidence and rule out alternative interpretations. This must have been a very hard paper to write -- no wonder it took five authors, to cover such disparate lines of evidence.

The idea that any organic matter has survived that long is kind of mind-blowing.

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Penn State: Window to the past: New microfossils suggest earlier rise in complex life [View all] OKIsItJustMe Nov 2023 OP

Nice photos of lovely cherts at the link, but no photomicrographs of the fossils in question. nt eppur_se_muova Nov 2023 #1

Microfossil images available at linked publication OKIsItJustMe Nov 2023 #2

Thanks! The photos are not that impressive, but the oldest microfossils seldom are. eppur_se_muova Nov 2023 #3