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Essay Archive - The Making Of The Cat
The Making Of The Cat
Soup or Sandwich
IN THE VERY BEGINNING, about 4.6 billion years ago (give or take a few
years), a small ball of rock, water and gas had come to be and immedi-
ately set about the process of combining its atoms into more and more
complex arrangements. Thus began that most wondrous story, the evolu- tion
of life on Earth.
For the first 2.1 billion years of the Earth's existence, the Archeo-
zoic Era, life very slowly evolved. The Earth's crust was still in flux
and covered for the most part by shallow seas. The atmosphere was composed
prim....
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