New research comparing the geology of southern Africa with the deep seafloor near New Zealand challenges conventional views of how the planet behaved when it was very young.
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Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few theories based on the microbes, viruses and prions existing today.
Could tectonic processes in the early Earth have contributed to the rise of oxygen?
Life doesn’t just need water and oxygen to thrive, it also needs iron.
Dating of rocks that once formed some of the world’s first beaches suggests the first large continents grew large enough to rise above sea level roughly 3 billion or so years ago.
The first ancient human DNA from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi — and the wider Wallacea islands group — sheds light on the early human history of the region.
Evidence from the Pilbara region suggests Earth in its youth behaved very differently to how it does today, and had more water within it than previously thought.
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Principal Scientist, GNS Science
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Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, Griffith University
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Professor of Iron Biology, University of Oxford
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Professor, Curtin University
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PhD Candidate, Griffith University
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Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
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PhD candidate, Griffith University
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Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Junior Professor, University of Tübingen
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Professor, Universitas Hasanuddin
