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Early Life

Early life attempts to tell the stories of primitive life.

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The text conveys some of the excitement in the current attempts to reconstruct the opening chapters of life on the planet Earth, long before the appearance of the simplest animal or plant..

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Author: Lynn Margulis

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.

Date: Apr. 17, 2002

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