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Early Life on Earth

Early Life on Earth

Early Life on Earth

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That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
4:45
What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth?
When The Earth Was Purple
5:37
But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little … purple.
The Search for the Earliest Life
5:37
Even in a hellish environment, life found a way.
How Two Microbes Changed History
7:39
More than two billion years ago, a tiny living thing started to live inside another thing.
How Sex Became A Thing
5:39
Follow the early history of how (and why) sex became a thing.
The Other Explosion You Should Know About
6:25
The Sudden burst of diversity that marked the dawn of truly complex life on our planet.
What Was the Ancestor of Everything?
11:06
The search for our origins go back to a single common ancestor.
Where Did Viruses Come From?
7:29
Where did viruses come from and how did they evolve? Are viruses alive?
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