What Was The "Boring Billion" Really Like?

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References:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-fascination-earths-boring-billion 
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229672-900-why-did-evolution-stall-during-the-boring-billion/ 
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/December-2019/Feature-1 
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/earth-sciences/explainer-myth-busting-the-boring-billion/ 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11540130/
https://theconversation.com/earths-boring-billion-years-of-stagnant-stinking-oceans-might-actually-have-been-rather-dynamic-120134 
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/8/3105 
https://home.cern/science/experiments/cloud 
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11500

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