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This introductory course examines how life’s essential biomolecules may have formed abiotically, where early life may have originated, and how life evolved from early organisms through the Cambrian Explosion. It connects hydrothermal vent hypotheses, biological classification, endosymbiosis, and fossil evidence to implications for life beyond Earth.
