๐Ÿฆ ๐ŸŒ When did bacteria learn to breathe?

A new study reconstructs 4 billion years of bacterial evolution.

Surprisingly, some aerobic bacteria evolved before the Great Oxidation Event โ€“ oxygen tolerance may have paved the way for photosynthesis.

๐Ÿ”— https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp1853

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