This week, we are looking at the mechanisms for bacterial metabolisms, the rise of an oxygen atmosphere, and the importance of photosynthesis in developing an understanding of life. I get all excited about a ‘second generation’ of alien life on earth and present a good reason why there was a couple billion years difference between cyanobacteria arising on earth and the actual development of a high oxygen atmosphere.

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