Synopsis

The intricate tapestry of life on Earth owes its beginnings to an improbable event. For two billion years, all life existed as single-celled organisms, gradually colonizing the planet. Consequently, the prospect of discovering complex extraterrestrial life – life akin to our own – seems extraordinarily unlikely. Here on our planet, complexity arose from a singular, accidental occurrence: one cell engulfing another, forging a cellular power source known as the mitochondrion. This almost miraculou