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At the end of the Archaean our planet was dominated by bacteria. It still is, but today the bacteria are no longer in the foreground. Instead, they form the essential background to existence. The more obvious players on the stage today are the multi-celled plants and animals that have occupied the seas and colonized the continents, to form a complex, planet-wide, interdependent network of life. How did the change come about?
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Glaessner, M. 1984. The dawn of animal life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Holland, H.D. 1984. The chemical evolution of the atmosphere and oceans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Margulis, L. & D. Sagan 1986. Microcosmos. New York: Simon & Schuster.
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Nisbet, E.G. (1991). The birth of the eukaryotes. In: Living Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3056-1_7
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