[SOUND] I'd like to invite you to join me on a journey of exploration. Over in going around the planet, the deepest parts of the oceans, the hottest and largest volcanoes on the planet and the outer reaches of the solar system to understand fundamentally how life is evolved planet earth. The emergence of life will be built upon the work of Carl Rose at the University of Illinois whose provided us for the brand new frame work for how to understand life changes to geological time. And how evolutionary processes have creative the amazing diversity that we have now in planet Earth. >> He was able to trace back microbial life all through its roots. And at that time, nobody had thought this would ever be possible. >> Prior to Rose's work, it was thought that there really just two kinds of life. >> The ideas we're wrong and still are wrong in our textbooks, as you know. [MUSIC] >> My first thought was this isn't even a poker real and this continued and my excitement grew. What was this beast? >> And we had to understand that our principals of evolution had to evolve. And they evolved with the data. >> We're going to use some brand new approaches and they're approaches where you don't need to be a scientist. You need to simply be a citizen on planet Earth which I think is most of you. And you have to have an open mind about learning about new things. And looking at things which you soon have been well understood which in reality are just beginning to be understood. What does this mean exactly? Well, we're going to be seeing meteors hit the planet, forming the moon, and causing a lot of what lived on planet Earth to go extinct multiple times through geological history. We're going to see bacteria, the small organisms that we take for granted actually rise to dominate what the chemistry of the Earth is and provide us with oxygen We're going to see dinosaurs rule the planet. But then evolving to birds and have those birds still part of our present day lifestyles. We're going to see primates that evolved into humans. And we're going to see humans then move forward and fundamentally impact the structure and composition of a planet Earth. And we're even going to look at NASA space programs and think hard about sending a postcard with information about who we are to other unknown things that are living throughout the solar system. So please join me on this journey of discovering adventure and looking at things we take for granted everyday with a whole new light. And seeing how evolution has crafted and carved this beautiful planet Earth is composed of and then using that to look for life throughout the cosmos. >> Evolution is bigger than life, way bigger than life. You have evolution first then you think about life. >> A hundred years down the line people will know William's name just like we know Darwin's name.