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- Not to be confused with the Archaeozoic Eon, which was intentionally renamed "Archean Eon" to cause further confusion.
Archaea (meaning "old things") are a group of single-celled microorganisms that substitute one of the three acknowledged domains of life.[1] Originally called Archaebacteria (meaning "old rod-shaped things"), the taxonomists later dropped the "bacteri" part of the name when they learned these microorganisms are more closely related to us[2] than to any of the species belonging to the Bacteria taxon.[3]
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- ↑ I say "acknowledged" because there are obviously domains of life not commonly acknowledged by biologists, like robots, or energetic clouds of gas, or internet memes, or chupacabra-Bigfoot hybrids. Well, maybe not that last one.
- ↑ Or to be less specific, Eukaryota (meaning "nice nuts") in general.
- ↑ This was obviously done so they could make fun of any creationists accusing them of claiming humans evolved from bacteria.