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When did life appear on the earth?

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Today, as the author holds, we can speak only about the time when life appeared on the earth and not when it originated. This statement is true for at least the last four billion years of our planet’s history, i.e., documented geological history.

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Original Russian Text © A.Yu. Rozanov, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 5–6, pp. 533–541.

Academician Aleksei Yur’evich Rozanov is academician-secretary of the RAS Branch of Biological Sciences and director of the RAS Paleontological Institute.

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Rozanov, A.Y. When did life appear on the earth?. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 305–312 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610030184

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