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Eozoon

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E`o`zo´on
n.1.(Paleon.) A peculiar structure found in the Archæan limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.
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Indeed, it is one of the great ironies in the history of science that Dawson fought to convince his contemporaries that life had microbial origins far deeper in time than most were willing to accept: his Eozoon canadense (Dawson 1875).
"Coal Age Galapagos": Joggins and the lions of Nineteenth Century ... by Calder, John H. / Atlantic Geology
There is reference to the Eozoon controversy, but one learns little here of the strange role of J.
Thinking About the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology by Spalding, David A.E. / Canadian Journal of History
Many of his contemporaries were highly skeptical of his view that life had originated far deeper in geologic time than previously suggested (a hypothesis that we now know to be correct), and, by the end of Dawson's life, Eozoon was interpreted as an abiotic metamorphic phenomenon (Hoffman 2004).
Sir William Dawson (1820-1899): a very modern paleobotanist by Falcon-Lang, Howard J.; Calder, John H. / Atlantic Geology
 
 
 
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