A fertilizer dearth foiled animal evolution for eons?

Posted by on December 21, 2016 5:28 pm
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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, scientists report.

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