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EPISODE · Nov 30, 2020 · 8 MIN

Episode 79: A Complexity of Life

from The Poetry of Science · host Sam Illingworth

This episode explores new research, which has found that molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks aren't the earliest evidence of complex life on Earth, but are instead nothing more than common algae. --- Read this episode’s science poem here.   Read the scientific studies that inspired it here and here.   Read ‘Hearsay Song’ by John Yau here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   Twitter: @samillingworth 

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This episode explores new research, which has found that molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks aren't the earliest evidence of complex life on Earth, but are instead nothing more than common algae.

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