Unexpected carbon composition discovered in world's oldest diamonds
Did life on earth begin earlier than we have hitherto believed?
04-Jul-2008 -
While examining the oldest diamonds in the world, a group of researchers, including Martina Menneken and Dr. Thorsten Geisler from the University of Münster (Institute of Mineralogy), have found evidence that life may have existed 4.25 billion years ago. Up to now, scientists have assumed that ...
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