History & Patterns of Life
A 18-module path through history & patterns of life, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life
- The RNA World Hypothesis
- The Last Universal Common Ancestor
- Major Evolutionary Transitions in Evolution
- The Origin of Eukaryotes and Endosymbiosis
- The Evolution of Multicellularity
- The Evolution of Sex and Recombination
- The Cambrian Explosion
- Introduction to Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Hox Genes and the Genetic Basis of Body Plans
- Modularity and Developmental Constraint
- Macroevolution and the Fossil Record
- Punctuated Equilibrium and Rates of Evolution
- Mass Extinctions and Their Consequences
- Convergent Evolution and Homoplasy
- Coevolution and the Red Queen
- Human Evolution and the Hominin Lineage
- Synthesis: Reading the History of Life