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How Life Began

8.22009MovieDocumentary

Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single celled organisms inundated the oceans, and the soil swarmed with living…

DirectorLuke Ellis
WriterMatthew P. Hickey

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Cast · Directed by Luke Ellis

RH
Robert Hazen
Self - Carnegie
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Marcelo Gleiser
Self
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George Coyne
Self
NTNeil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self

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