How Old Are the Eukaryotes?
- 2 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 193 (4247) , 47-49
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.193.4247.47
Abstract
Evidence from Precambrian sediments appears to indicate that nucleated (eukaryotic) organisms had become well established and relatively diverse about 850 ± 100 million years ago and that eukaryotes were probably extant, and may have first appeared, as early as 1400 ± 100 million years ago.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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