UCLA Geochemist: Life Arose "Almost Instantaneously" on Early Earth

Findings of "rapid evolution" seem to be coming at an ever-increasing pace. A recent example in the stream of these announcements is that with the discovery of graphite in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon, life on Earth may have started, err, "almost instantaneously." As reported in 2015 in news from UCLA:

"Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking," said Mark Harrison, co-author of the research and a professor of geochemistry...