Origins of life [sound recording] / Robert M. Hazen.

Title:

ISBN:

9781598031010

Personal Author:

Hazen, Robert M., 1948-

Publication Information:

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2005.

Physical Description:

12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

24 lectures and 30 minutes per lecture.

"Great courses. Science & mathematics. Biology."

Contents:

Part 1: The grand question of life's origins -- The historical setting of origins research -- What is life? -- Is there life on Mars? -- Earth's oldest fossils -- Fossil isotopes -- Molecular biosignatures -- Emergence -- The Miller-Urey experiment -- Life from the bottom of the sea -- The deep, hot biosphere -- Experiments at high pressure.

Part 2: More experiments under pressure -- Deep space dust, molten rock, and zeolite -- Macromolecules and the tree of life -- Lipids and membrane self-organization -- Life on clay, clay as life -- Life's curious handedness -- Self-replecating molecular systems -- Gunter-Wachershauser's grand hypothesis -- The RNA world -- The pre-RNA world -- Natural selection and competition -- Three scenarios for the origin of life.

Subject Term:

Life -- Origin

Genre:

Audiobooks

Added Corporate Author:

Teaching Company

Series Title:

Great courses (Compact disc)

Series Sequence:

Great courses (Compact disc)

OCLC Number:

ocn864833496