Vickie Bennett, of the Australian National University, added that she found the new study "disappointing" and "unfortunate" in that it "only serves to confuse" the earlier research that she and her colleagues did on these ancient rocks.
Date: Oct 17, 2018
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These 3.4 Billion-Year-Old Fossils From Australia Are Startlingly Similar to Modern Bacteria
"This is exciting work with the new types of analyses providing compelling evidence that the cherts contain biogenic microfossils," said researcher Vickie Bennett, a geochemist from the Australian National University.
The emerging picture from the ancient-rock record is that life was everywhere, says Vickie Bennett from Australian National University, who was not involved in the latest study. As far back as the rock record extendsthat is, as far back as we can look for direct evidence of early life, we are fi