• Question: how old is the oldest cell?

    Asked by to Daren on 26 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Daren Fearon answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      The oldest cell for which there is evidence for is 3.4 billion years old, so my rough guess in the chat wasn’t bad! It is likely that there were older cells but we haven’t found evidence for them yet, or might not ever. Here is a bit more information from the University of Oxford:

      http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2011/110822.html

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