A revised timeline for when algae became ecologically important among plankton in the ancient oceans reveals a link between chemical changes in those waters and the emergence of animals in marine ecosystems. See Letter p.578
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Knoll, A. Food for early animal evolution. Nature 548, 528–530 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23539
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