After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”

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Although the welfare of plankton may not be at the very top of most people’s minds, these tiny organisms fill an important ecological niche. Source
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Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

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In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source
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