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Questioning the evidence of Earth's oldest fossils

Date

Authors

Brasier, Martin

Green, Owen

Jephcoat, Andrew

Kleppe, Annette

Van Kranendonk, Martin

Lindsay, John

Steele, Andrew

Grassineau, Nathalie

Publisher

Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Abstract

Structures resembling remarkably preserved bacterial and cyanobacterial microfossils from ∼3,465-million-year-old Apex cherts of the Warrawoona Group in Western Australia currently provide the oldest morphological evidence for life on Earth and have bee

Keywords

Keywords: Amorphous materials; Biomarkers; Electron microscopy; Genes; Mapping; Morphology; Photosynthesis; Raman spectroscopy; Microfossils; Earth (planet); oxygen; electron microscopy; hydrothermal system; microfossil; origin of life; Precambrian; prokaryote; Ram

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/64906

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Nature

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1038/416076a

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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