Carbon isotope evidence for early life

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1997-04-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/386665A0PMID 9109484
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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