Week 4
Our Evolution Over the Past 3 Billion Years
This week focuses on endosymbiosis, the origin of the eukaryotic cell, the origin of multicellularity and the tragic separation of somatic cells from the germline. Are sex and death so fundamentally linked that we should expect them to evolve on other planets?
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13:41
4.1.1 All Eukaryotes
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12:05
4.1.2 We Are Worms. We Are Amoeba
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12:46
4.2.1 Endosymbiosis
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09:44
4.2.2 How Big are ETs?
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12:40
4.2.3 Origins of Multicellularity
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03:30
4.2.4 Imagine Slime Mold
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14:19
4.2.5 Reproduction and Sex
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12:58
4.2.6 Sex and Death
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17:34
4.3.1 Are ETs Multicellular Animals?
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04:19
4.4.1 Andy Knoll: geobiologist
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08:59
4.4.2 Dirk Schulze-Makuch: geobiologist
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03:40
4.4.3 Maja Adamska: evolutionary biologist
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07:03
4.4.4 Dorion Sagan: science writer/eclectic dilettante
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05:06
4.4.5 David Schwartzman: geobiologist
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19:09
4.5.1 Student Discussion
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07:43
4.5.2 What would you do with 100 billion dollars
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01:01
Aggregation of slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum
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0:16
E.coli growth and binary fission
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10:02
Where Did Eukaryotic Cells Come From? - A Journey Into Endosymbiotic Theory
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01:05:25
HOMAGE TO DARWIN: Evolution debate with Dawkins, Margulis, Brasier and Bell (2009)
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26:58
Lynn Margulis Interview
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12:26
The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis
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27:59
Lynn Margulis on her life, Symbiogenesis, Gaia Theory, Scienctific Practice and Effects of Money
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43:45
Nick Lane: Origin of the eukaryotic cell
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01:04:14
Why is life the way it is? Dr Nick Lane | The Royal Society
Sex and the Origins of Death
by William R. Clark, 1998, Oxford University Press
What is Sex?
by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature
by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, 2007, Chelsea Green Publishing
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H. Knoll, 2003, Princeton University Press