16:28
5.2.1 What Can Earth Life Tell Us About ET Life?
04:04
3.1.1 The Ancestor’s Tale
11:59
3.2.4 We Are Fish
10:57
3.2.1 Cousins Are NOT Ancestors
05:52
3.2.2 Making Aliens in Our Own Image
14:57
3.1.3 Phylogenetic Trees
10:32
3.5.2 Books by Dawkins, Shubin and Long
04:10
3.1.2 Timelines
05:35
3.2.5 Do Aliens Have Heads?
05:14
1.4.1 Brian Schmidt: astrophysicist
05:06
4.4.5 David Schwartzman: geobiologist
08:41
6.4.4.2 Eric Smith
06:05
6.4.1.7 Jeremy England
05:07
Lawrence Krauss
00:32
1.1.6 What Does "Alone" Mean?
03:01
7.2.3 Have you Ever Seen a UFO?
04:59
Dave Spergel
04:19
4.4.1 Andy Knoll: geobiologist
02:41
1.1.6 Is "Are We alone?" an Important Question?
05:18
3.4.2 Jim Gehling: invertebrate palaeontologist
04:16
3.4.4 Michael Archer: mammalogist
01:20
7.5.2 What Aliens Might Exist?
03:26
5.4.1 Charles Marshall: evolutionary biologist
05:42
1.4.5 Genevieve Bell: anthropologist/technologist
07:15
2.4.4 David Christian: big historian/Russian historian
06:35
Alessandro Morbidelli
04:04
6.4.1.4 Jim Cleaves
04:35
6.4.1.5 Nick Hud
05:24
2.4.3 Irene Romero Galago: human geneticist
06:54
7.4.1 Seth Shostak: radio astronomer
05:10
5.4.3 Simon Conway Morris: paleontologist
08:26
5.4.4 Malcolm Walter: astrobiologist
01:51:25
John Long
04:03
1.4.8 Julian Burnside: barrister/human rights advocate
05:54
6.4.1.3 John Sutherland
06:36
2.4.5 Marnie Hughes-Warrington: philosopher/historian
06:51
7.2.2 What Kind of Alien Would You Like to Meet?
05:41
6.4.2.3 Mike Russell
02:50
6.4.2.2 Laurie Barge
05:41
6.4.2.1 Martin Van Kranendonk
14:33
3.2.3 The Story of Legs, Hair and Nipples
06:58
Ian Crawford
04:45
6.4.1.1 Steve Benner
05:35
6.4.1.2 Jack Szostak
05:36
1.4.2 Charles Cockell: astrobiologist
04:47
6.4.3.3 Betül Kaçar
05:14
6.4.2.4 Kathy Campbell
05:30
6.4.4.3 Kim Sterelny
06:18
2.4.1 Colin Groves: mammalogist/primatologist
05:07
1.4.7 Stephen Wolfram: theoretical physicist/founder of Mathematica
04:19
6.4.3.1 Anthony Poole
06:52
7.4.2 Jerry Ostriker: astrophysicist
05:40
1.4.3 Jill Tarter: radio astronomer
05:45
2.4.2 Varsha Pilbrow: physical anthropologist
03:30
5.4.2 Tim Lenton: Earth systems scientist
06:50
7.2.1 Is the Universe Without Life a Waste of Space?
04:12
6.4.4.4 Emily Parke
09:22
1.4.6 Martin Rees: Astronomer Royale
07:34
3.2.6 Tree of All Animals
04:31
1.1.3 The People We Surveyed
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About
This video-based course probes the question “Are we alone?” Unlike SETI scientists, Mars rovers and planet-hunting astronomers, we take a biological approach and ask: “How did WE get here?” Like salmon swimming upriver to the pond where they were born, we are led upstream from whence we came. We take a pilgrimage into the past to the origin of life 4 billion years ago. During this evolutionary odyssey with astrobiologist Charley Lineweaver, we ask: Who is “we”? Why did our brains get so big? How did life get started? Are viruses alive? What is life? Answers to these questions may help us get from How DID life start? to How DOES life start?
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