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Our planet Earth is home to many amazing, wonderful and beautiful plants, places and animals. How all that began, about 4 billion years ago, is also quite impressive, especially since our Earth was a lifeless hot rock exposed to radiation, electrical discharges, heat from erupting volcanoes and more! However, it turns out that those not-so-comfortable conditions were the exact mix needed to create the first building blocks of life. Some chemical elements, including hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, joined in variations to form certain molecules. Then, these small molecules also joined in different ways and formed carbon-based compounds. And it's these compounds that became the founders and essential parts of all forms of life. Read this book to find out just how life came to be on Planet Earth.

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Elena Grigorieva was born in 1954 in Kuibyshev, Russia. She graduated from Moscow State University with a Ph.D. in histology, anatomy and embryology. She was employed as a scientific officer at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London. She was involved in the histological analysis of various genetically modified animal models.After her retirement in 2011, she continued to participate in scientific research. She has incorporated this knowledge into her writing.Her favourite activities are reading, watching documentary films, travelling, experiencing and learning about different cultures, as well as visiting museums and theatres. Her special skills are sewing, knitting and drawing. Since her school days, she has been interested in the structure of human and animal bodies and the evolutionary aspects of life.She is married and has two daughters. Elena wrote The Indispensable Eight, and this is her second book.

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