Abstract
Comparison of planetary atmospheres - Mars, Venus, and Earth, Michael McElroy cosmochemical evolution and the origins of life, Cyril Ponnamperuma origin of life - polymers before monomers?, Clifford Matthews origins of membrane structure, David Deamer origins of life - the historical development of recent theories, Antonio Lazcano the antiquity of life, Elso S. Barghoorn evidence of earliest life, Paul Strother microbial mats of Abu Dhabi, Stjepko Golubic stromatolites of Shark Bay, Stjepko Golubic symbiosis theory - cells as microbial communities, Lynn Margulis spirochetes and the origin of undulipodia, Lynn Margulis life in the late Proterozoic, Andrew Knoll Continental drift and plate tectonics, Raymond Siever chemical signals from plants and phanerozoic evolution, Tony Swain questions and answers, Robert Buchsbaum mammalian evolution - Karyotypic fisison theory, Neil Todd the Gaia hypothesis, James E. Lovelock Gaia - what's new? Appendices - teaching strategy - sample schedule and minimal assignments, time assignment, space assignment, worksheets, field trips, suggestions to students preparing class presentations, the interactive lecture program five-kingdom classification scheme background reading geological time Modes of nutrition.
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