Moontanman Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Life got bigger in two, millionfold leaps, researchers say Dec. 26, 2008Courtesy Stanford Universityand World Science staff Earth’s crea*tures come in all sizes, yet sci*en*tists be*lieve they all de*scend from the same single-celled or*gan*isms that first pop*u*lated the plan*et. So how did life go from bac*te*ria to the blue whale? “It hap*pened pri*marily in two great leaps, and each time, the max*i*mum size of life jumped up by a fac*tor of about a mil*lion,” said Jon*a*than Payne, a ge*o*log*ist and en*vi*ron*men*tal sci*ent*ist at Stan*ford Uni*ver*s*ity in Cal*i*for*nia. Life got bigger in two, millionfold leaps, researchers say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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