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Is this a fossil? If so, complex life on Earth emerged 1.5 billion years earlier (www.earth.com)

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We see a lot of similar headlines from anthropology. One artifact overthrows the entire known timeline. I’m far from educated on these topics and maybe the articles are just sensationalizing it all, but these always rub me the wrong way. It seems like a very tiny number of data points to work with and whole fields of understanding flipping around a lot. Is this the best we can do?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not a lot of data points remaining after a few million years.