This presentation is by Jason de Nys of the Australian International School in Hong Kong. Check out his SlideShare profile here:

Here’s a really neat Prezi too.

Here’s a clip from the BBC’s The Gene Code, on how complex life on Earth began:

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D1 The Origin of Life on Earth

Miller-Urey Experiment

Adam Rutherford comments on this article by Ed Yong: Scientists finish a 53-year-old classic experiment on the origins of life

Miller-Urey interactive experiment, with interviews with Stanley Miller, from UCSD

Tutorial: Synthesis of Prebiotic Molecues, from Freeman LifeWire

Sci-Am 60second podcast, Miller-Urey, 55 years on.

Carl Sagan’s Abiogenesis: The Origins of Life

Endosymbiotic Theory

Evolution of organelles tutorial from Sumanas

Food vacuoles handle digestion and excretion, from Life Wire (lots more here)

Endosymbiosis, from McGraw Hill

Reading:

“The origin of complex life – it was all about energy” from NotExactlyRocketScience