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• TITLE: Sexual Reproduction One Billion Years Ago

  AUTHORS: Petr N. Kolosov

  KEYWORDS: Microorganisms; Cyanobacteria; Algae; Cells; Sexual Reproduction; Evolution; Neoproterozoic; Siberia

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Resources, Vol.4 No.5, September 3, 2013

  ABSTRACT: The facts regarding to the early stages of algae evolution in the Precambrian are very rare (more than 542 million years ago). In this paper, the author describes the first discovered evidence that the sexual reproduction process took place one billion years ago. As it is known, sexual reproduction led to the diversity of living organisms on the Earth, and in general, accelerated the evolution process.