The Origins of Life

Life technically arose without sunlight. It arose from a different form of light infrared down at the surface of the ocean. As life came to the surface and was exposed to the Sun, we began to take advantage because that's sort of how life works. And so for humans and plants and other animals that live either, you know, closer to the light in the ocean or now on thesurface of the continents. We began to innovate a ton of different functions driven by light. For example, if you look at vitamin D synthesis, this is a process that sure we can consume external vitamin D from certain,. you know, fish and that kind of thing. But the evidence is pretty clear that it

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