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Microfossil could rewrite History of Life on Earth

A microfossil from China suggests complex organisms evolved far earlier than we thought

A bilaterium microfossil from China could mean complex organisms evolved 50 million years earlier than previously believed. Could a super-storm caused by global warming set off a new ice age, as predicted by the Hollywood science-fiction movie, The Day After Tomorrow? Next Tuesday, the planet of Venus will cross in front of the sun in the first Transit of Venus since 1882. Can our "brain fingerprinting" implicate or exonerate us if we're suspected criminals?

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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