Primordial steroids solve long-standing mystery about how the 1st complex life-forms evolved

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Compounds from 1.6 billion years ago reveal a microbial transition that set the stage for much of today's life on Earth.

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[skynr13]

It would have been nice to see in this article what the newly discovered steroids were. Do they have a name or how are they different from modern steroids? What function(s) did they perform in this primordial eukaryotes?