In this interdisciplinary seminar we want to ask ourselves how life on Earth came into being. What is life? We want to understand what was going on shortly after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, fish in the primordial soup of life and research extraterrestrial life.
We read and discuss current scientific publications from the fields of astrophysics, astrochemistry, biology and biomathematics.
Interest in reading relevant scientific literature and lively discussion.
For students from all natural science courses (from about the 5th semester of a Bachelor programme)
Life in the Universe - Expectations and Constraints, D. Schulze-Makuch, L.N. Irwin (Springer, 2018, Cham)
Life in the Universe, J. Bennett und S. Shostak (Addison-Wesley, 2012, San Francisco)
Further literature:
Astrobiologie für Einsteiger, K.W. Plaxco und M. Groß (Wiley-VCH, 2012, Weinheim)
Handbook of Astrobiology
Edited by Vera Kolb
Print ISBN: 9781138065123
eBook ISBN: 9781315159966
Adobe ISBN: 10.1201/b22230
Routledge Handbooks Online, CRC Press
Semesterapparat in der FB Biologie
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20-EB_10 Ergänzungsmodul Biologie | 2 std. Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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20-EB_5 Ergänzungsmodul Biologie | 2 std. Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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20-GBSB-EM_a Ergänzungsmodul | Ergänzungsmodul | Ungraded examination
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Talk, slides, discussion (Vortrag und Ausarbeitung)
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