42: The Answer to Almost EverythingThe Origin of Life

30 min

Available until 14/10/2026

15/10/2023

While scientists agree on the date (4 billion years ago), their opinions diverge on the place and conditions that saw the birth of life on our planet. Did the first cells emerge from a primordial soup rather than from primitive oceanic hydrothermal springs? Or could life on Earth have originated elsewhere? 42 attempts to explain it all.

Director

Nicoletta Renz

Country

Germany

Year

2023

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