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Publication
The Great Courses (2005), 12 hours, 24 lectures, 206 pages
Description
"[T]his series of 24 lectures provides an overview of the current understanding of life's origins and establishes a foundation for sharing in the many new discoveries that are sure to follow in the coming months and years." -- Guidebook, p.3.
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LibraryThing member qaphsiel
An excellent course covering the various theories of the origins of life. The coverage is quite broad and I learned about theories I'd never heard of elsewhere. Hazen interjects biographical and autobiographical to round out the history and context of the material.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
206 p.; 10.1 inches
ISBN
1598031015 / 9781598031010
Local notes
1 The Grand Question of Life’s Origins / 2 The Historical Setting of Origins Research / 3 What Is Life? / 4 Is There Life on Mars? / 5 Earth’s Oldest Fossils / 6 Fossil Isotopes / 7 Molecular Biosignatures / 8 Emergence / 9 The Miller-Urey Experiment / 10 Life from the Bottom of the Sea / 11 The Deep, Hot Biosphere / 12 Experiments at High Pressure / 13 More Experiments Under Pressure / 14 Deep Space Dust, Molten Rock, and Zeolite / 15 Macromolecules and the Tree of Life / 16 Lipids and Membrane Self-Organization / 17 Life on Clay, Clay as Life / 18 Life’s Curious Handedness / 19 Self-Replicating Molecular Systems / 20 Günter Wächtershäuser’s Grand Hypothesis / 21 The RNA World / 22 The Pre-RNA World / 23 Natural Selection and Competition / 24 Three Scenarios for the Origin of Life