Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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How did life first appear on Earth? Are there living organisms beyond Earth? Scientists, throughout time, have tried to understand what could be considered as life and how the building blocks of living organisms could have emerged in early Earth conditions. This video aims to show the main steps of the origins-of-life study and also discusses the definition of life in order to know what we should consider alive.

This video was created by Timothée Boutfol, a student in the Cell Physics Master at the University of Strasbourg, France. cellphysics-master.com