Toppling the Boring Billion: Biomarkers, orbital cycles and primordial life

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The apparent ‘Boring Billion’, the geological period 1,800 to 800 million years ago, may have harboured seas of fluctuating colours. Fossil biomolecules, unearthed from 1.6 billion years old sediments, draw a picture of ancient seas oscillating betwee
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/01/1630/09/19