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The rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere that occurred 2.4–2.2 billion years ago is known as the Earth’s Great Oxidation, and its impact on the development of life on Earth has been profound. Thereafter, the increase in Earth’s oxygen level persisted, though at a more gradual pace. The proposed underlying mathematical models for these processes are based on physical parameters whose values are currently...