How Life Began

How Life Began

Documentary | July 16, 2009

Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single celled organisms inundated the oceans, and the soil swarmed with living creatures. Where did it all come from and how do you go from a single-celled organism to a trillion-celled organism like man?

How Life Began

Documentary | July 16, 2009

How Life Began

Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single celled organisms inundated the oceans, and the soil swarmed with living creatures. Where did it all come from and how do you go from a single-celled organism to a trillion-celled organism like man?

Producers	History Channel
Original title	How Life Began
Directors	Luke Ellis
Writers	Matthew P. Hickey

Cast

Robert Hazen

as Himself - Carnegie

Marcelo Gleiser

as Himself

George Coyne

as Himself (as Fr. George Coyne)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

as Himself