Before Animals, Evolution Waited Eons to Inhale

Monday, July 25, 2016 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

A couple of times in four billion years, evolution has slowed to a crawl. And an eon or so has passed before more complex life forms, such as simple animals, could arise. Evolution may have been waiting for a decent breath of oxygen, said researcher Chris Reinhard. And that was hard to come by. His […]

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