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Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Art by Khail Kupsky
Thumbnail Art and Art by Ettore Mazza



If you like our videos, check out Leila’s youtube channel:



https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIk7euOGq6jkptjTzEz5kQ



Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.



References:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150701-the-origin-of-the-air-we-breathe 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6717284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1183582/ 
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/160/3829/729
https://sci-hub.do/10.1126/science.160.3829.729 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qERdL8uHSgI&feature=emb_logo 
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/NSFE_3046507.pdf 
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-microbiology/chapter/types-of-metabolism/ 
https://sci-hub.do/10.2475/ajs.s4-23.135.187 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/timeline-of-photosynthesis-on-earth/ 
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HqGWEAnByeMC&pg=PA255&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226483301_The_Evolution_of_Chlorophylls_and_Photosynthesis  
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Book%3A_Microbiology(Boundless)/8%3A_Microbial_Evolution_Phylogeny_and_Diversity/8.09%3A_Nonproteobacteria_Gram-Negative_Bacteria/8.9B%3A_Anoxygenic_Photosynthetic_Bacteria
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41576896_Evolution_of_Minerals/link/0f3175387497ed308d000000/download
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119382508.ch3



Image Credits (in order of appearance):



Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc., CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons



By James St. John - Jaspilite banded iron formation (Soudan Iron-Formation, Neoarchean, ~2.69 Ga; Stuntz Bay Road outcrop, Soudan Underground State Park, Soudan, Minnesota, USA) 53, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41251871



By James St. John - Jaspilite banded iron formation (Soudan Iron-Formation, Neoarchean, ~2.69 Ga; Stuntz Bay Road outcrop, Soudan Underground State Park, Soudan, Minnesota, USA) 53, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41251871



James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons



James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons



By Yanenming - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25647440



By Bäras - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2840543



By McGhiever - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33618499



By Zosma - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10887879



By John Sweeney - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18605199



By Abrget47j - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29864282



By Mhsheikholeslami - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91982743



By James St. John - Tillite (Coleman Member, Gowganda Formation, Paleoproterozoic, ~2.3 Ga; Straight Lake West roadcut, north of Temagami, Ontario, Canada) 10, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84647970



James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons



James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons



By Oleg Kuznetsov - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89577421



Life restoration of Mimoperadectes. By Jorge González - Horovitz I, Martin T, Bloch J, Ladevèze S, Kurz C, et al. (2009) Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums. PLoS ONE 4(12): e8278. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008278.g006, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8760185