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NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

2016•54m•8.1/10
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8.1/10(10)

Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place-a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid...

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Jay O. Sanders

Jay O. Sanders

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