Life's rocky start / a Nova production by Hamilton Land and Cattle, Inc. for WGBH Boston ; written, produced & directed by Doug Hamilton.



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Documentary. Title appears before end credits. Widescreen presentation. Actual program running time: 54 minutes. Originally broadcast by PBS Jan. 13, 2016. TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-G (general audience; most parents would find this program suitable for all ages). Managing director, Alan Ritsko ; senior executive producer, Paula S. Apsell ; editor, Rob Tinworth ; camera, Brad Dillon (and eight others) ; music, Chee Wei Tay. Narrator, Jay O. Sanders ; commentator, Robert Hazen. In English with optional English subtitles.

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Life's rocky start / a Nova production by Hamilton Land and Cattle, Inc. for WGBH Boston ; written, produced & directed by Doug Hamilton.
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Hamilton, Doug, screenwriter, television director, television producer. .
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Four and a half billion years ago, how did life emerge on Earth? Robert Hazen advances a startling idea, that the rocks on Earth were not only essential to jump-starting life, but then, life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we rely upon today. , "Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place--a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerged. How did it happen? NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen on the rocky trail to resolve this enduring mystery. As Hazen journeys around the globe--from an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian outback--he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea--that the rocks beneath our feet were not only essential to jump-starting life, but then, as microbes flourished and took over the biosphere, life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we know and depend on today. This intriguing perspective of the co-evolution of Earth and life is reshaping the grand-narrative of our planet's story. In this stunning adventure through billions of years of history, the story of life on Earth is revealed as fundamentally interwoven with the epic, unfolding story of Earth itself."--From back of container.
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2016
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