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A research team constructed a detailed evolutionary timeline of bacteria, revealing that some microbes used oxygen long ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara ...