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No. The Moon was probably formed in a titanic collision between the proto-Earth and another smaller planet perhaps as large as Mars, when the solar system was still very young and chaotic, about 4 billion years ago. There was no life there.

However, if there HAD been any life on Earth, a collision of that magnitude would certainly have exterminated it all, and entirely re-shaped our planet. Probably not a single trace of the original crust of the Earth would have survived.

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