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Earliest Chemical Traces of Life on Earth Discovered in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rock


Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa's Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest chemical evidence yet of life on Earth.

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