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Let us first take a brief look at the history of life on the Earth. It is estimated that the Earth on which we live was born as a member of the solar system approximately 4.6 billion years ago. And it is thought that the first life on the Earth, that is self-replicating molecules resembling genes, were born several 100 million years later, about 4 billion years ago.
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Kimura, M. (2020). Tracing the Course of Evolution. In: My Thoughts on Biological Evolution. Evolutionary Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6165-8_3
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