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Precambrian

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Precambrian, Pre-Cambrian
of, denoting, or formed in the earliest geological era, which lasted for about 4 000 000 000 years before the Cambrian period


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Sleeping In The Inland Sea: Tonight we wake in a Precambrian wind/that sends the mesquite leaves and acacia petals/flying like snow.
Most readers of this review will know the main Snowball protagonist--the GSC's former Precambrian virtuoso, Paul Hoffman.
Finally, as a microbe in the Precambrian period, he learns that to kill and devour others is good--it's called heterotrophic life.
 
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