Attenborough alert

Right now on Discovery…it's First Life with David Attenborough, which is supposed to be about the origin of life on Earth. There's a pretty severe metazoan bias, unfortunately, so it's really about the origin of animals, but still it's cool stuff about the Cambrian.

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