Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Country roads revisited - life is old there..OLDER than the mountains... Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:22:42 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: {$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="88022"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ANb54QVTWS/ZLU4XsG/H76xbAiU= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id A94E7229782; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:22:22 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 89322229765 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:22:20 -0400 (EDT) id 336ED7FCB8; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:22:50 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay.zaccari.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0EA827FC27 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:22:50 -0400 (EDT) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-256) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eternal-september.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 590345F824 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: name/590345F824; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=meden.demon.co.uk id C86E1DC01A9; Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:22:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:22:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19XGMqAmUU7CMTEH9bzOPQ2tNsnpjnFm/0IFYuObcPzhbcUt1YI8of5VNT22syh4wNPmBvP8VCtUA== Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED,RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 smtp.eternal-september.org Bytes: 3141 On 29/07/2024 11:28, burkhard wrote: > according to this new, but heavily disputed research on how old > complex life on Earth is > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3geyvpxpeyo > The first publication on this (the Francevillian Biota or Gabonionta) was in Nature in 2010. I presume that this is El Albani et al (2010) in the references, but they've not only paywalled the bulk of the paper, but also most of the references. (I remembered seeing the Wikipedia article on this some time back.) -- alias Ernest Major