Thursday, December 29, 2016

A fertilizer dearth foiled animal evolution for eons?


A fertilizer dearth foiled animal evolution for eons?

12/29/2016 09:34 AM EST

sea floor sediment relic 1.9 billion years old

Earth was inhospitable to complex life for billions of years, practically suffocating evolution in a nearly oxygen-free environment. Then came a shift in phosphorus concentrations to ocean shallows, and after that, the evolution of complex life exploded.


Full story at http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/12/21/fertilizer-dearth-foiled-animal-evolution-eons

Source
Georgia Institute of Technology


This is an NSF News From the Field item.


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