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Our analysis showed that temporal perception has even greater variation than scientists may have realised. Our perceptual ...
Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Revised Edition, 2026), Siddhartha Mukherjee, published by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.
Ancient microbes tied to our earliest ancestors could use oxygen, reshaping ideas about how complex life began on Earth.