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Mineral fodder: How life made earth into a cosmic marvel

17 mins | May 28, 2017

We may think we are the first organisms to remake the planet, but, as Robert Hazen writing in Aeon Magazine discovers, biological life has been affecting and transforming the inorganic earth for aeons, making it a cosmic marvel.

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