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Introduction: How and when did microbes change the world?

Thomas T Cavalier-Smith, Martin M Brasier, and T Martin TM Embley

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361(1470):845-50 (2006) PMID 16754602 PMCID 1626534

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1847
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