“A virus cannot exist on its own. It has to burrow into another cell, cause havoc within that cell, infect it and then that cell explodes…” – a rock created by ancient organisms – Hadean Time, the time of the fire – life may have been brought from another part of the universe on a meteorite – open your mouth and touch the top of your teeth – the Cambrian, our era, begins about 541 million years ago – life is a molecule telling proteins how to work – I’m standing in the Natural History Museum – paleontologist, science guide and tutor at Cambridge Univerity – to see the best fossils you have to… – a whole series of organisms – for only around 630 million years – From the Beginning – tells the story from the beginning of existence – takes you through the history of earth – earth was literally a molten ball – viruses remind us that our planet, in fact our universe always starts out with a very small building block – lightning and water and some very simple chemical reactions – Aaron makes complicated things easy to understand – superb exposition – this brilliant young Cambridge scientist makes science fun – Enjoy!