On The River Of History

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 403 billion to 541 million years ago continues covering the rise of multicellular life Snowball Earth and the first animalsTranscript httpsriverofhistorytumblrcompost182173306141episode3theoriginoflifeLinks and Referenced MentionedGeologic Time Scale httpwwwstratigraphyorgICSchartChronostratChart201808jpg Richard Fortey quote Life A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth Richard Fortey Vintage Books 1997RNA experiment httpswwwpnasorgcontentearly201608101610103113 Quebec Putative MicroFossils httpeprintswhiteroseacuk112179 August 2018 Genetic Study httpswwwnaturecomarticless415590180644x