Abderrazak El Albani
Abderrazak El Albani is a French sedimentologist, maître de conférences at University of Poitiers at the Hydrasa laboratory (CNRS)[1] He is significant for having discovered the oldest known fossils of multicellular organisms in the 2.1 billion years-old black shales of the Palaeoproterozoic Francevillian Group Fossil Formation in Gabon,[2] which shed new light on the origin of multicellular organisms.
References
- ^ http://hydrasa.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/spip.php?rubrique45&lang=fr.
- ^ Abderrazak El Albani1, Stefan Bengtson2, Donald E. Canfield3, Andrey Bekker4, Roberto Macchiarelli5,6, Arnaud Mazurier7, Emma U. Hammarlund2,3,8, Philippe Boulvais9, Jean-Jacques Dupuy10, Claude Fontaine1, Franz T. Fürsich11, François Gauthier-Lafaye12, Philippe Janvier13, Emmanuelle Javaux14, Frantz Ossa Ossa1, Anne-Catherine Pierson-Wickmann9, Armelle Riboulleau15, Paul Sardini1, Daniel Vachard15, Martin Whitehouse16 & Alain Meunier1, Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago, Nature 466, 100-104 (1 July 2010) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7302/full/nature09166.html
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