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Summary Of Life Begins: Crash Course Big History
In John/Hank Green’s video, “Life Begins: Crash Course Big History #4,” he discusses many different concepts encompassing the beginning of life on Earth. Life can adapt, metabolize and reproduce; but even these broad standards can make it difficult to classify certain things as ‘living.’ Regardless, the underlying principle is that life will actively try and increase its longevity, contrast to non-living things, which make no active attempt to exist longer. Another big idea is the transformation of scientific knowledge regarding life. For hundreds of centuries, even scientists believed that life could spontaneously appear – if food were to be left out in the open. This concept was shot down by scientist Louis Pasteur, who conducted an

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