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Dawkins in the Classroom: London Students Debate God, Darwin & the Origin Of Life

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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The Origin of Life and the Self-Replicating Entity

This chapter explores the origin of life on Earth, discussing the complexities of bacteria's sudden existence and estimating that life originated around 4 billion years ago through a chemical event that resulted in the first self-replicating entity, paving the way for the evolution and complexity of life.

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