Science:Social Sciences
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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Read ‘Hearsay Song’ by John Yau here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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