The emission of large quantities of marine iodine into the atmosphere prevented the existence of a stable ozone layer during all that time, so the Earth had no defense against the lethal ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
Life emerged on our planet around 4 billion years ago, very shortly after the Earth itself formed. The first bacteria took hold in a world radically different from the one we see today, with oceans…
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