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An earth made for life - part one
A series of programmes looking at the origins of complex life on earth
A series of programmes looking at the origins of complex life on earth. The first programme looks at the tenacity of life and how life became ever more complex, at around 2 billion years ago. Early earth was a very different place, where the only life existing in slime. Then the Cambrian explosion happened.
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