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Welcome To The Course
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Nonequilibrium Physics
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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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Selection Theory
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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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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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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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Exam - Unit 6
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Course Feedback
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Peer-Reviewed Assignment
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6.11 Course Feedback » Course Evaluation
Thank you for participating in the first offering of 'Origins of Life"!
The course instructors will continue to add to and improve the course before the next offering in 2020. Please take a moment to provide them with feedback on the course by filling out the course evaluation. Thank you!