Geochemical impoverishment and eukaryotization of the biosphere: A causal link

Paleontological Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 592-599

  Fedonkin, M A ^a  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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