This is a 3.5 minute HD dramatic video choreographed to powerful music, which introduces the viewer to the Origins of LIFE on Earth. It is designed as a motivational "trailer" to be shown by Biology and Life Science teachers in middle and high school and college as a visual "Introduction" to the topic of how life began.
8' video on origins of life
Paul Andersen describes how life could have formed on our planet through natural processes. The progression from monomers, to polymers, to protocells and finally to cells is described. The Miller-Urey experiment is described in detail as well as characteristics of the latest universal ancestor.
How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together?