Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT140100321
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
New Insights into the Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth. This project aims to provide new insights into the origin of life on Earth, life’s diversification through the Precambrian, and the co-evolution of life and early Earth environments. It will be discipline-leading in that it will take the study of early life to the sub-micrometre and hence sub-cellular level. This will facilitate new opportunities for identifying the types of life present during early Earth history, their metabolisms, cellular chemistry and interactions with their environment. This project aims to also provide new search engines and more robust assessment criteria for life on other planets, and help to resolve specific scientific controversies, for example, the validity of claims for cellular life from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2015
End Date: 06-2019
Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships
Funding Amount: $767,444.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Astrobiology | Palaeontology (incl. Palynology) | Geology | Isotope Geochemistry
