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By Robert S. Boyd / The Bulletin
October 28, 2009
WASHINGTON — Twice in the Earth’s history, living creatures underwent astonishing growth spurts, and each time, new organisms emerged that were a million times larger than anything that had existed before.
Scientists say that’s the way life on our planet expanded from tiny single-celled microbes....