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As rich and life-supporting as the Earth is today, it was once nothing more than a column of dust, dancing inside a scorched cyclone of stellar gas. And just how we as humans managed to emerge from this ancient dust makes up the topic of this video. So join us, as we wind the cosmic clock backwards almost five billion years, from you and I today, all the way back to the birth of the solar System, back to when Earth was nothing more than a burning, barren wasteland.

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SOUNDTRACK:
The music in this video was created by Scott Buckley and CO.AG Music, their respective tracks are listed below:

Scott Buckley Creative Commons Music: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/
- Undertow: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/undertow/
- Moonlight: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/moonlight/
- Machina: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/?s=machina
- This Too Shall Pass: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/this-too-shall-pass/
- Celestial: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/celestial/
- She Moved Mountains: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/she-moved-mountains/

CO.AG Music: https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic1823
- Lufian Sky (CO.AG): https://youtu.be/LLmuc12sS7g
- Dim Light Documentary Music (CO.AG): https://youtu.be/DKV7Lfda2NM
- Lost Time Edit Mix (CO.AG): https://youtu.be/18R8o8J7GMU
- Dream That Summer Dream (CO.AG): https://youtu.be/5jARlSfkVv4
- Another Time, Another Space, Another Place (CO.AG): https://youtu.be/kABg8lGVo28

FOOTAGE:

Stock Footage provided by Storyblocks.com and Vecteezy.com (Pro Licenses)
https://www.vecteezy.com/members/sea-media-stock

A few space scenes in this video were captured using SpaceEngine Pro, a virtual universe simulator: http://spaceengine.org/

Other Footage Sources:
- NOAA Image Gallery of Hydrothermal Vents: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/video_playlist.html
PaleoZoo: https://www.paleozoo.com.au
- Adobe Stock: https://stock.adobe.com

Sources of Information:

- Miracle Planet Documentary Series, Narrated by Christopher Plummer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488317/

- Eukaryotes: https://www.britannica.com/science/eukaryote

- Eukaryote Cells and Multicellularity: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x

- Trilobites: https://www.trilobites.info/trilobite.htm

- Carboniferous Period: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/carboniferous.php

Pangaea: https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/earth/power-of-plate-tectonics/pangaea

- Origin of Homo Sapiens: https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Welcome
1:36 Formation of Earth
3:33 The Hadean Era
5:41 Hydrothermal Vents
7:57 The First Lifeforms
10:24 Great Oxidation Event
13:21 Eukaryotes
14:52 Multicellular Lifeforms
19:06 Early Cambrian Creatures
21:21 Fish
24:54 The First Amphibians
27:24 Pangaea: The Supercontinent
30:40 The Great Die-Off
33:38 The Rule of Dinosaurs
36:16 The Asteroid Extinction
39:10 First Humans
42:09 Closing Statements

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