How old is life on Earth? Its chemical traces may have been recognized in rocks from Greenland that are more than 3.8 billion years old, at least 300 million years older than any previous evidence.
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Hayes, J. The earliest memories of life on Earth. Nature 384, 21–22 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/384021a0
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