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Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
Season 5 Episode 19 | 12m 47s
| Video has closed captioning.
The origin of life is one of the most important mysteries in all of science. When did life begin? How did life first evolve from chemistry? Where did life get started? In some primordial soup or somewhere else? Let’s journey back to the origin of life, as best as we know it, from the RNA world do the last universal common ancestor of everything alive today.
