Billions of Years Ago, Microbes Were Key in Developing Modern Nitrogen Cycle
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 14:28
in Earth & Climate
New research shows that the large-scale evolution of microbes was mostly complete 2.5 billion years ago, and that included the beginning of the modern aerobic nitrogen cycle.
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