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January 28, 2014

Scientists reveal why life got big in the Earth's early oceans
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2014
Why did life forms first begin to get larger and what advantage did this increase in size provide? UCLA biologists working with an international team of scientists examined the earliest communities of large multicellular organisms in the fossil record to help answer this question. The life scientists used a novel application of modeling techniques at a variety of scales to understand the scientific processes operating in the deep sea 580 million years ago. The research reveals that an increa ... read more

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