Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

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Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

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IT is no longer eccentrics warning the End is Nigh – some of the smartest minds in the world think humankind faces ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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Underneath the shouting and sound bites, the Chapel Hill–Carrboro hearing was about something more basic and more corrosive.