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Welcome To The Course
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Constraining Chemical Complexity to Form Life
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Geological Conditions, Change, and Chaos
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Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems
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The Central Dogma of Biology
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Biological Similarity
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Exam - Unit 1
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Unit 2 Introduction
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What Did Early Earth Look Like?
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Likely Environments for Studying Origins of Life
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Chemistry and The Origins of Life
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Why Nature Chose Phosphates
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Why Water, Why Carbon
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Chemical Cycles and Chaos
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Fossil or Not?
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Exam - Unit 2
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Unit 3 Introduction
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DNA as Information
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Water as a Driving Force for Organization
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Kinetic Vs. Thermodynamics - Assembly Constraints
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Chemical Configurations: Proteins and DNA
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Early Metabolisms
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Energy Harvesting
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Systematics and Limits of Metabolic Rates
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Exam - Unit 3
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Unit 4 Introduction
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Protocells
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Chemical signatures for identifying life in the geological record
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Autocatalysis
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Evolutionary Theory
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Niche Construction
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Exam - Unit 4
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Unit 5 Introduction
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Origins of Eukaryotes
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Phylogenetics
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Macroscopic Theories of Biology
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Selection
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Selection Theory
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Artificial Life Theory
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Exam - Unit 5
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Unit 6 Introduction
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Origins of Life and Astrobiology
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Abstract and General Models for Life
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The Multiple Origins of Life
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Evolutionary Computation
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Scaling
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Energy
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Nonequilibrium Physics
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Exam - Unit 6
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Course Feedback
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Peer-Reviewed Assignment
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2.9 Fossil or Not? » Fossil or Not?
Take the quiz and discuss what you think about the fossil evidence for early life on the forum here!