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Does Life's Early Appearance Mean it's Easy?

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October 13, 2016

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Does life's early emergence mean life starts easily? Growing evidence shows that life got started very quickly (within ~100 million years) after conditions became suitable for life on Earth (~3.7 billion years ago). This is often taken as evidence that life starts easily, but is this really true? Prof Kipping explains why things aren't as simple as they seem.

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► Nutman et al. 2016, "Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700millionyearold microbial structures"

► Allwood 2016, "GeologyEvidence of Life in Earth's Oldest Rocks"

► Outro music by Taylor Davis

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