This episode is dedicated to one of the biggest scientific mysteries of the modern world: how living things came to be. The chemistry of life is examined and various hypotheses are discussed. Evolution by natural selection is explained, and the history of the world - from 4.03 billion to 541 million years ago - continues, covering the rise of multicellular life, Snowball Earth, and the first animals.
Transcript: https://riverofhistory.tumblr.com/post/182173306141/episode-3-the-origin-of-life
Links and Referenced Mentioned:
Geologic Time Scale: http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2018-08.jpg
Richard Fortey quote: Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth. Richard Fortey, Vintage Books (1997)
RNA experiment: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/08/10/1610103113
Quebec Putative Micro-Fossils: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/112179/
August 2018 Genetic Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0644-x
