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that tIn• >(* was life <m earth nearly
three l .lia-n years ago -- almost
two billion years earlier than pro
viouslv estimator! was reported
Saturday by the Carnegie Institu
tion of Washington.
The evidence suggests the living
things consisted of om-celled
plants called algae - primitive
ancestors of those still commonly
found as scum on mill ponds. These
are the same type plants which
might some day be used to fur
nish food and oxygen for astro
nauts on long voyages in space.
Dr. Caryl Haskins of Carnegie
told about it in the institution’s an
nual report. He credited the
achievement to Dr. T. C. Hoering
of the Institute’s Geophysical La
boratory.
Hoering came up with the evi
dence during a study of ancient
rocks, including some limestone
from Southern Rhodesia estimated
to be at least 2.7 billion years old.
This and other age estimates are
based on the recently evolved ra
dioactive dating methods.
Hoering used delicate techniques
to measure the amounts of differ
ent isotopic forms of carbon found
in the rocks. And he found clues
indicating the algae, which con
tains carbon, were living at the
time the rocks solidified.
Hoering told a reporter that re
cent previous estimates of the
length of time primitive life has
existed on the earth ranged only
from 500 million to a billion years.
Anthropologists say that apes,
the animal closest to man, lived at
least 25 million years ago. The
earliest known human beings
existed less than two million years
ago. Anthropologist L. S. Leakey
says there is evidence that crea
tures having characteristics “head
ing in the direction of what event
ually became man’’ existed 14
million years ago.
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