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What was it like when the Earth was created? How could life emerge from the bubbling, fire-belching "primeval soup"? In Chile, more than 5,000 meters above sea level, in the Earth´s highest volcanoes and the Atacama desert, scientists are searching for archaea, those smallest of living organisms, that initially populated our planet under the most extreme conditions imaginable - and that continue to survive to this day in boiling sulfur springs and crevasses. Did they come from space to bring us to life?