How did it all start on Earth ...?

By: Caroline Lachowsky

How it all began ? When and how did life appear on Earth? How does the discovery of fossils of complex organisms in Gabon, Mauritania and Ukraine, renew the whole history of the living?

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Let's go back in time to the origins of life on Earth: when, how and where did the first complex multicellular life forms appear? ... Did life appear several times? Has it disappeared to reappear in other forms and under other conditions? So many questions opened by the revolutionary discoveries of our guest, the geology professor Abderazzak el Albani who uncovered (almost by chance) in Gabon, multicellular life forms dating back 2.1 billion years, or one billion years earlier than expected ...

With Abderrazak El Albani , professor of geology at the Institute of Chemistry of Environments and Materials at the University of Poitiers, for the book Comment tout commencé sur la terre… the story of an incredible discovery, published by Humensciences , on his discovery of the origins of life on Earth.

→ The Virtual Museum at the origins of life.

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