Emergence of Life

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 8 weeks

所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 物理与地球科学 大学或机构: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（ 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳 - 香槟分校） 授课老师： Bruce W. Fouke

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/emergenceoflife

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The pioneering work of Professor Carl Woese on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus has revolutionized our understanding of the fundamental structure and evolutionary relatedness of all living entities on Earth. This has resulted in a new "Tree of Life" and a first ever understanding of what life looked like before the base of the root of the Tree had evolved.

Although these concepts from Woese's work are central to cutting-edge genome-enabled research in all fields from medicine to energy, these understandings are currently only minimally (if at all) taught in classrooms around the world.

This course will evaluate the entire history of life on Earth within the context of our cutting-edge understanding of the Tree of Life. This includes reconnaissance of ancient primordial life before the first cell had evolved, the entire ~4-billion-year development of single- and multi-celled life through the lens of the Tree of Life, and the influence of Earth system processes (meteor impacts, volcanoes, ice sheets) on shaping and structuring the Tree.  This synthesis emphasizes the universality of the emergence of life as a prelude for the search for extraterrestrial life.

课程大纲

• Week 1. Course Welcome, Geological Time, and the Nature of Science
  
• Week 2. The Tree of Life and Early Earth Environments
• Week 3. Fossilization and Precambrian Life-Earth Interaction
• Week 4. Paleozoic Life After the Advent of Skeletons
  
• Week 5. Paleozoic Plants, Reptiles, and the Transition to Land
  
• Week 6. Mesozoic Reign of Dinosaurs and the Development of Flight
  
• Week 7. Cenozoic Mammals and Global Environmental Change
  
• Week 8. Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Cosmos
  

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