Beginning of

Life
 Between 3700 and 2500 million years ago, nothing was as it is today,
neither the continents, nor the oceans, nor the atmosphere. In those
times, the atmosphere was crossed by electric storms, and ultraviolet
rays of the Sun. These phenomena transformed the substances that
were present, by means of chemical reactions, into macromolecules
that were able to reproduce and feed themselves. Life was born!
Between 3200 and 2900 million years ago, thanks to the appearance
of blue algae that could carry out chlorophyll photosynthesis, oxygen
spread into the atmosphere. Thanks to the oxygen in the air and the
nitrogen, life could also be transferred to the surfaces above the water.
According to some scientists, life originated in puddles of water on
the surface, others instead believe it originated in the ocean abysses,
where there are sources of very hot water rich in minerals. To date, in
these inhospitable environments we find bacteria that are able to live
without light and receive energy from chemical oxidation of the
sulphur compounds.
  Philosophers from ancient Greece believed that life
Beginning of Life was contained in matter itself and when conditions
were favourable it would appear…
 The first living organisms we have proof of thanks to
The evolution of


fossils, are three and a half billion years old.

life
 Fossils

 We may say that every day, palaeontology

researches, active worldwide, present some new
discovery: it may be a new…