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Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview

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Reconciling proxy records and models of Earth's oxygenation during the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic

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Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply

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Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle

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The resonant tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon distance

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The origin and early evolution of plants

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Earth’s Great Oxidation Event facilitated by the rise of sedimentary phosphorus recycling

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Drivers of the global phosphorus cycle over geological time

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Manganese oxides, Earth surface oxygenation, and the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis

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Evolution of the structure and impact of Earth’s biosphere

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Quantification and interpretation of the climate variability record

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Extreme variability in atmospheric oxygen levels in the late Precambrian

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Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation

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Reconciling discrepant minor sulfur isotope records of the Great Oxidation Event

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The rise of angiosperms strengthened fire feedbacks and improved the regulation of atmospheric oxygen

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A protease-mediated mechanism regulates the cytochrome c 6 /plastocyanin switch in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

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