Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion OpenCourseWare: A Free Graduate Level Evolution Course by MIT
Through its OpenCourseWare program, MIT provides free online access to 'Dynamics of Complex Systems: Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion' offered by MIT's Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department. The course brings together quantitative theory, evolutionary biology and organic geochemistry to investigate the relationship between plants and animals and the biogeochemical cycle.
Dynamics of Complex Systems (Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion): Course Specifics
| Degree Level | Free | Audio | Video | Downloads |
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| Graduate | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Lectures/Notes | Study Materials | Tests/Quizzes |
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| No | Yes | No |
Dynamics of Complex Systems (Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion): Course Description
Approximately 500 million in the past, the diversity of marine life on Earth increased dramatically. 'Dynamics of Complex Systems: Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion' brings together a variety of scientific approaches to analyze the causes of this explosion and its effects on the Earth's biogeochemical cycles from the end of the Precambrian Era (Earth's formation to 570 million years in the past) to the end of the Cambrian Period (570 - 500 million years in the past). 'Dynamics of Complex Systems: Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion' OpenCourseWare contains a list of readings about the molecular fossil record, early animal evolution, oxygenation and glaciations. MIT Professor Daniel Rothman taught the original course through lectures. The readings for 'Dynamics of Complex Systems: Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion' assume a solid understanding of differential equations and physics.
'Dynamics of Complex Systems: Biological and Environmental Coevolution Preceding the Cambrian Explosion' OpenCourseWare provides free access to the reading list and reference papers. If the past, especially 500 million years in the past, interests you, then please visit the primitive evolution of animals and the biogeochemical cycle course page.
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