Life May Have Begun 4.1 Billion Years Ago on an Infant Earth

Friday, October 23, 2015 - 09:30 in Astronomy & Space

Previous research suggested life may have arisen on Earth 3.83 billion years ago. The new findings suggest life started 270 million years earlier, and only about 440 million years after Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago.

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