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Oxygen was once a planetary disruption before it became the breath of complex life.

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Why it matters

The idea in context

During the Great Oxidation Event, oxygen rose in Earth's atmosphere billions of years ago. For many early microbes it was toxic; for later life, it opened the path to larger bodies, higher energy and eventually us.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Oksijen, karmaşık yaşamın nefesi olmadan önce gezegensel bir sarsıntıydı.

Büyük Oksitlenme Olayı sırasında, milyarlarca yıl önce Dünya atmosferindeki oksijen arttı. Birçok erken mikrop için zehirliydi; sonraki yaşam içinse daha büyük bedenlere, daha yüksek enerjiye ve sonunda bize giden yolu açtı.

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NASA Astrobiology; Royal Society paper. Sources: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/articles/2019/3/5/clues-of-earths-early-rise-of-oxygen/index.html ; https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4755140/

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