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Early Life on Earth

Early Life on Earth

Early Life on Earth

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What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth?
But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little … purple.
Even in a hellish environment, life found a way.
More than two billion years ago, a tiny living thing started to live inside another thing.
Follow the early history of how (and why) sex became a thing.
The Sudden burst of diversity that marked the dawn of truly complex life on our planet.
The search for our origins go back to a single common ancestor.
Where did viruses come from and how did they evolve? Are viruses alive?