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Preston Cloud

American paleontologist

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study of Earth’s atmosphere

  • geologic time
    In geologic history of Earth: Formation of the secondary atmosphere

    …formulated by the American paleontologist Preston Cloud has been widely accepted as an answer to this question. The earliest primitive organisms produced free oxygen as a by-product, and in the absence of oxygen-mediating enzymes it was harmful to their living cells and had to be removed. Fortunately for the development…

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