101 Low levels of oxygen delayed evolution by about two billion years, new research claims
Low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s middle ages held back evolution for two billion years, a new research has claimed, raising fresh questions about the origins of life on our planet. Professor Tim Lenton and Stuart Daines of the University of Exeter in the UK, created a computer model to explain how oxygen stabilised at low levels and failed to rise, despite oxygen already being produced by early photosynthesis. […]