How Did Life Begin?

Hello folks. Hope you enjoy it! Hopefully gonna have a video every weekend in July. Next weekend...LUCA.

when i was a kid (maybe 7 or so) i remember my mum trying to explain to me that moths are made out of dust and if a place is dusty enough for long enough then the dust will just become moths. (im deliberately avoiding using words like spontaneous as they werent her words). And i remember sorta laughing a bit and saying "ok, but that cant be real though" and she looked at me with bemusement and i realised quickly that she truly believed this... it was quite a moment for me!... still makes me chuckle :)

1:25 with the subtitles on, 'life baguettes life' , now that was beautiful

I study biology in France, it's my first year and we have a course called Apparition of Life. You described the first chapter almost word for word ! I couldn't be more thrilled, it's always a relief to have a bit of visual support when reading pages and pages of informations becomes disheartening. I can't wait to see more, thank you

As an older geologist, I’m out of date, my generation of geology students (early 1980s) learned that 92 elements occurred naturally on earth, not 94. Your videos are excellent, thank you!

"Every element is characterised by it's behaviour, it's affinity for others elements, and the energy needed to make or break connections." If that doesn't deserve a like, I don't know what does.

My ass would've stayed in the primordial soup if I knew there was gonna be days like this.

Such beautiful prose and he makes it so much easier to understand complex ideas. I cannot get enough of this channel. I feel like a child exploring the world for the 1st time again.

It is nice to see Carbon gets along with everyone.

This is extraordinarily well researched, presented, scripted and narrated.

This is extremely well produced, researched and narrated. The Channel is a hidden gem of the internet!

The writing on this channel is leagues ahead of 99% of big TV documentaries. Awesome content!

I just found this channel a few days ago but from all that I've seen on YouTube this is the most comprehensive and involving channel about earth's history. Very well done! I wish you many subscribers and a good fortune!

Note that many of the cells shown in this interesting video, are Eukaryotes which developed from Prokaryotes. Prokaryotes (the Archaea and Bacteria) have no internal membranes to seperate cell chemistry (such as a Nucleus, Mitochondria and Chloroplasts etc.) but do have the outer cell membrane made of fatty acids. Two or more Prokaryotes got together (accidentally) and ended up making a viable symbiont called the Eukaryotic Cell, from which we all developed. This all took a long long time.

I feel like the production on these videos is on par with some BBC/NatGeo/Discovery shows!! Love it!! I'd been looking for a channel that details this stuff and YouTube recommended this video. I can't wait for the rest of the series!! <3

I have watched quite a few presentations delving into how life got started, and one thing that I have noticed, is that (so far) nobody has remarked on the primordial Earth's abundance of radioactive elements. Almost all of the radioactive 'light' elements have decayed, but some like Uranium, have half-lives long enough to persist until today. Billions of years ago, U235 could have been as abundant as 8% or higher. Perhaps this source of energy that was ever present on the planet, provided the initial 'spark' to start things going.

Awesome production! As someone working full-time on emergence of life research it's great to see there's loads of interest on the topic!! Huge thanks

I watched many videos on this subject and by far this one is the most easily understood, Good job very well done

Really nicely-paced narration, wonderfully clear - perfect for those of us with hearing problems :D Lovely graphics too. Thanks for this!

love love love this channel! super well researched and narrated. one of my favorites!