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Study Resolves Doubt About Origin of Earth's Oldest Rocks, Possibility of Finding Traces of Ancient Life.

Byline: University of Chicago

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Experiments led by Nicolas Dauphas of the University of Chicago and Chicago's Field Museum have validated some controversial rocks from Greenland as the potential site for the earliest evidence of life on Earth.

"The samples that I have studied are extremely controversial," said Dauphas, an Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and a Field Museum Associate. Some scientists have claimed that these rocks from Greenland's banded iron formations contain traces of life that push back the biological record of life on earth to 3.85 billion years ago. Others, however, ...

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