Big Unknowns: how did life begin? – Science Weekly podcast

According to our best estimates, life first appeared on planet Earth around 3.8bn years ago. But what happened leading up to it? What conditions were necessary? And what is 'life' anyway'?

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The question of how life began here on Earth has been one at the forefront of scientific endeavour for millennia. And whilst huge advances - both theoretically and experimentally - have been able to bring pieces of this mysterious puzzle to light, the quest to understand where we came from, what we're doing here, and whether life could exist elsewhere in the universe, is as elusive as ever.