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So far in this book we have argued, we hope persuasively, that many things possessed by complex organisms such as ourselves—eukaryotic cells, multicellularity, sex—and things we depend on, such as oxygen, were likely outcomes once life was established on Earth 3.5 billion years ago. But we have scarcely mentioned the appearance of large organisms themselves. What about molluscs and dinosaurs and trees?
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Schulze-Makuch, D., Bains, W. (2017). The Rise of Complex Animals (and Plants). In: The Cosmic Zoo. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62045-9_9
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