Episode 79: A Complexity of Life

<p>This episode explores new research, which has found that molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks aren't the earliest evidence of complex life on Earth, but are instead nothing more than common algae.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/1662/a-complexity-of-life/'>here</a>.  </p> <p>Read the scientific studies that inspired it <a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01334-7'>here</a> and <a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01336-5'>here</a>.  </p> <p>Read ‘Hearsay Song’ by John Yau <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91900/hearsay-song'>here</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:</p> <p>Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a>  </p>