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Earth's acid test: When did ocean acidity allow life to commence?
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Was the emergence of intelligent life on Earth just a fluke? Some scientists think not
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
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Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're not alone
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.
Earth’s Water Mystery Deepens With New Meteorite Evidence
Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...
New theory ups the odds that intelligent aliens exist
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Planetary Evolution May be the Reason for Human Life, and Life Elsewhere
A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...
Earth’s First Oceans Were an Acidic Hellscape – Here’s What Happened Next
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Odds of human-like lifeforms on other planets may be more likely than previously thought: study
Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...
Scientists Used Yellowstone Hot Springs to Study the Moment That Kickstarted Life on Earth
A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.
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How life's building blocks took shape on early Earth: The limits of membraneless polyester protocell formation
A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...
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‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is changing
an associate professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “Previous studies have already discussed how inner core rotation has changed over ...