Moontanman Posted May 11, 2010 Report Posted May 11, 2010 Did Phosphorus Trigger Complex Evolution -- And Blue Skies? ScienceDaily (May 10, 2010) — The evolution of complex life forms may have gotten a jump start billions of years ago, when geologic events operating over millions of years caused large quantities of phosphorus to wash into the oceans. According to this model, proposed in a new paper by Dominic Papineau of the Carnegie Institution for Science, the higher levels of phosphorus would have caused vast algal blooms, pumping extra oxygen into the environment which allowed larger, more complex types of organisms to thrive. Did phosphorus trigger complex evolution -- and blue skies? Quote
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