The team commented that the scarcity of macroscopic remains was in marked contrast to an abundance of microscopic evidence of maize in the guise of maize pollen samples collected from soil at the sites.

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But in some circumstances, in particular at low temperatures, the wavefunctions of most of the electrons can oscillate in harmony, leading to esoteric macroscopic effects.

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Wavefunctions are what make the microscopic world of quantum physics appear so different from the macroscopic world that people operate in.

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You would, therefore, have expected that macroscopic differences between species are reflected in differences between the molecular structure of these proteins, but this is not so.

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Normally, the microscopic wavefunctions of the electrons in a material combine in a way that blurs out their waviness on a macroscopic scale.

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