Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study in Science. The findings underscore the dynamic relationship between biological evolution and Earth's geological history.
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A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
Microbial life has dominated Earth’s history but left a sparse fossil record, greatly hindering our understanding of evolution in deep time. However, bacterial metabolism has left signatures in the ge...
