Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

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On Earth, the land moves. Over millions of years, continents shift and the entire surface of the planet reshapes itself. The driver of all this is plate tectonics: Earth’s surface is divided into ...