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My two cents:
Most people believe that life was first created in warmer climates. This would seem suitable for life, but a theory has been put forward stating that amino acids bind together much better in a cooler climate, i.e. the arctic. So as we were coming to the end of an ice age, certain chemicals (which either don't exist in the environment or are nowhere near as abundant today) binded together to create very primitive organic molecules, with would bind together to make more complex ones and so on until you had a basic cell (thousands of years for this to happen). After the first cell, there would eventually be more advanced cells, and the simpler cells fell into one kingdom and the more advanced ones fell into another. The simpler ones formed plants (I think) or probably only basic algae at that time. The advanced ones created animals, but not for a long time after the plants. The atmosphere was full of poisonous gasses (which, ironically, are the chemicals needed to create life) so animals couldn't live yet, but the plants didn't find so many of them poisonous. As we know, plants absorb CO2, which is poisonous to us. This reduced the level of toxins in the atmosphere over time, but the toxins created a perfect living environment for them. The plants created one of the most poisonous substances to life: oxygen. This was the point of no return, as oxygen destroys organic chemicals such as amino acids if they are unprotected. No new life would be able to form after this point, because any organic chemicals naturally occuring in the environment would be destroyed. After a while of putting oxygen into the atmosphere, animals began to develop. They evolved into fish, then reptiles, then mammals. After millions of years of mutations, the first "humans" evolved.
BTW of course nothing would be black, as the absense of light is detected as black by our sight system.
Most people believe that life was first created in warmer climates. This would seem suitable for life, but a theory has been put forward stating that amino acids bind together much better in a cooler climate, i.e. the arctic. So as we were coming to the end of an ice age, certain chemicals (which either don't exist in the environment or are nowhere near as abundant today) binded together to create very primitive organic molecules, with would bind together to make more complex ones and so on until you had a basic cell (thousands of years for this to happen). After the first cell, there would eventually be more advanced cells, and the simpler cells fell into one kingdom and the more advanced ones fell into another. The simpler ones formed plants (I think) or probably only basic algae at that time. The advanced ones created animals, but not for a long time after the plants. The atmosphere was full of poisonous gasses (which, ironically, are the chemicals needed to create life) so animals couldn't live yet, but the plants didn't find so many of them poisonous. As we know, plants absorb CO2, which is poisonous to us. This reduced the level of toxins in the atmosphere over time, but the toxins created a perfect living environment for them. The plants created one of the most poisonous substances to life: oxygen. This was the point of no return, as oxygen destroys organic chemicals such as amino acids if they are unprotected. No new life would be able to form after this point, because any organic chemicals naturally occuring in the environment would be destroyed. After a while of putting oxygen into the atmosphere, animals began to develop. They evolved into fish, then reptiles, then mammals. After millions of years of mutations, the first "humans" evolved.
BTW of course nothing would be black, as the absense of light is detected as black by our sight system.
