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3.7 billion years ago would have the boarderline for the beginings of "life" they were little more than a collection of amino acids, which are the biulding blocks of life but are not Life itself.

Water vapor, Hydrogen chloride, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Nitrogen spewed out of volcanoes and combined to form Methane, Ammonia, Hydrogen Cyanide. All highly Leathal to us, an experiment was carried out in 1950 by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey. They added all these gases together and passed electricity through them and viola amino acids. You may also have found prokaryotes shortly after they are not a cell with a nucleus but a sort of free floating membrane where everything is accessible at once, they were Earths first Life, even though they were bacteria.

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