article_snippet.sent: The study, by two scientists from the University of Oxford, was published in the journal Nature.
article_snippet.sent: We think that that is quite conceivable,’ said study co-author Bernard Wood, reported the LA Times.
article_snippet.sent: In an accompanying News and Views article for Nature, Dr Richard Carlson of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC said the theory could open up new avenues for thought..
article_snippet.sent: For example, if true, the theory would raise further questions about ‘how the young Earth ended up in the young Earth present oxidised state, which the theory has apparently retained for more than three billion years.