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Episode 12 Iodine and Early Life on Earth
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Episode 12 Iodine and Early Life on Earth

After the first early cells appeared, iodine played a pivotal role in organic evolution

My research has convinced me that iodine played a huge part in the flourishing of life and its diversification into different life forms after the first early cells appeared. In my opinion, life as we know it would not have evolved without iodine – some other kind of life, perhaps, but not the one we got.

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