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The Molecule That Made Us
Cenotes
Camila Jaber, a free-dive champion, dives in a cenote, in the Yucatan, Mexico. A cenote is a small opening of underground water in the jungle. Here, where there is not a lake, river or stream for hundreds of miles, the water from a cenote could support whole cities.
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Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.

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How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!