DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Origins of life / Professor Robert M. Hazen.

[PDF workbook version].

[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company, [2005]

Prince Frederick, MD : [Distributed by] Recorded Books

©2005

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (digital, 4 3/4 in.)

This 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.

Great courses. Science & mathematics. Biology

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.

Life -- Origin.

Life (Biology)

Lectures.

Educational films.

Hazen, Robert M., 1948- author, lecturer.

Teaching Company, production company.

Recorded Books, LLC, distributor.

Course no. 1515.

Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.

Lecturer: Professor Robert M. Hazen, George Mason University and Carnegie Institution of Washington.

DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.

The grand question of life's origin -- The historical setting of origins research -- What is life? -- Is there life on Mars? -- Earth's oldest fossils -- Fossil isotopes -- Molecular biosignatures -- Emergence -- The Miller-Urey experiment -- Life from the bottom of the sea -- The deep, hot biosphere -- Experiments at high pressure -- More experiments under pressure -- Deep space dust, molten rock, and zeolite -- Macromolecules and the tree of life -- Lipids and membrane self-organization -- Life on clay, clay as life -- Life's curious handedness -- Self-replicating molecular systems -- Günter Wächtershäuser's grand hypothesis -- The RNA world -- The pre-RNA world -- Natural selection and competition -- Three scenarios for the origin of life.

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