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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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Earth's Early Atmosphere
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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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Journal Club #1
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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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End of First Half
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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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Journal Club #2
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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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Search for Life in Our Solar System
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Exam - Unit 6
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Course Feedback
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Peer-Reviewed Assignment
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5.6 Selection Theory » Quasispecies and Error Catastrophe
The next video features SFI Faculty Michael Lachmann discussing selection theory in detail. You will need linear algebra to understand the derivations and implications. This video is optional.
Download the description of the variables he uses here.
Download the pdf of the slides here.
If you would like to run the script that Michael uses in the video - you will need to download the TeXmacs application for free here and then download the script here. Enjoy!