From the Cambrian to the Creation

Aleksey Rozanov

No earlier than just a hundred years ago scientists thought that the Earth and the organic life were few hundreds of million years the oldest. Yet precise dating of rocks the advanced methods have allowed recently revealed a far older age of our planet, as old as 4.5 billion years! The oldest finds of fossil life aged correspondingly. The origin of the first life is now estimated to be as early as 3.5 Byr but timing of its specific evolution stages is still being hotly debated.

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