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Written by Boldone
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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The universe counts possibly trillions of Solar Systems, but just one planet is positively known to be blessed with life. One lifetime - counting years from the birth of web 2.0 - may not be enough to get to know a single extraterrestrial organism, yet the complexities of life in our own Earth are surely large enough and the details of its history so countless that one's lifetime spent to document and study the creatures that lived on it, the tracks they left, the patterns of their origination and extinction, hypothesizing processes in action, can be filled with wonder and excitement. This one planet Earth has been called into existence some 4.5 billion years ago, cells doing their thing since 3.8 billion years, ready to accidentally become part of the fossil record. From this event on, the bread that was to feed generations of paleontologists has been baked in a thousand different forms and stored in huge piles of stacked sedimentary rocks. Bits of the record have been uncovered by our zealous predecessors and again hidden in a hundred thousand museum drawers, their own ideas written in piles of stacked paleontological articles, to further excite modern paleobiologists in search for treasures. Lots of work to do, then.
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