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What do we know about the origins of life? From the formation of the solar system to microbes evolving into bipedal mammals with opposable thumbs, today we will look over the four major theories about how life began.

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0:00 Intro
0:52 Life Might Be More Common in The Universe Than We Thought
3:20 What do we know?
7:07 Bottom Up
11:02 TopDown
12:30 RNA First
15:47 Metabolism First
18:23 Summary
19:16 Learn Science with Brilliant