Neoarchean 1

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The Neoarchean (also spelled Neoarchaean) is a geologic era within the Archaean.

  • 1. Oxygenic photosynthesis first evolved in this era and was accountable for the oxygen catastrophe which was to happen later in the Paleoproterozoic from a poisonous buildup of oxygen in the atmosphere, produced by these oxygen producing photoautotrophs, which evolved earlier in the Neoarchean.

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