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1. 8/29 Logic of Historical Science Slides - Podcast (6.2 Mb)

2. 8/31 Steno's Laws and the Discovery of Earth's History Slides - Podcast (4.4 Mb)

Reading: The Titular Bishop of Titiopolis, S.J. Gould (1981)

3. 9/3 Using Radioactive Decay to Estimate Geologic Age - Podcast (3.9 Mb)

4. 9/5 Origin of the Solar System - Podcast (6.4 Mb)

Reading: The Genesis of Planets, D.N.C. Lin (2008)

5. 9/7 Origin of Planet Earth - Podcast (6.1 Mb)

6. 9/10 Acquisition of Earth's Atmosphere and Ocean - Podcast (7.1 Mb)

Reading: A Cool Early Earth? J.W. Valley (2005)

7. 9/12 Origin of Earth's Crust and the Late Heavy Bombardment - Podcast (6.6 Mb)

Reading: The Evolution of Continental Crust, S.R. Taylor and S.M. McLennan (2005)

8. 9/14 Archean Tectonics and the Origin of Continents - Podcast (5.0 Mb)

9. 9/17 Faint Young Sun I: The Problem - Podcast (4.7 Mb)

Reading: How Climate Evolved on the Terrestrial Planets, J.F. Kasting, O.B. Toon, and J.B. Pollack (1988)

10. 9/19 Faint Young Sun II: The Resolution - Podcast (5.5 Mb)

Reading: When Methane Made Climate, James F. Kasting (2004)

11. 9/21 Earliest Evidence of Life on Earth - Podcast (6.4 Mb)

12. 9/24 Abiotic Synthesis: Life from Non-Life - Podcast (6.2 Mb)

13. 9/26 The Origin of Life: RNA World - Podcast (6.4 Mb)

Reading: Origin of Life on Earth, A.Ricardo and J.W.Szostak (2009)

14. 9/28 The Origin of Life: Descent of Electrons - Podcast (5.3 Mb)

Reading: The Origin of Life, J. Trefil, H.J. Morowitz, and E. Smith (2009)

15. 10/1 Assembling an Evolving Living System - Podcast (6.5 Mb)

16. 10/3 Extremophiles and the Diversity of Microbial Life - Podcast (6.1 Mb)

17. 10/8 Anaerobic Phototrophy - Podcast (5.7 Mb)

18. 10/10 Oxygenic Photosynthesis - Podcast (6.7 Mb)

Reading: Out of Thin Air, J.F. Allen and W. Martin (2007)

19. 10/12 The Great Oxygenation Event - Podcast (6.1 Mb)

20. 10/15 The Proterozoic: Earth Remade - Podcast (5.1 Mb)

21. 10/17 The Proterozoic Ocean - Podcast (5.8 Mb)

22. 10/19 Eukaryotic Chimeras: The Endosymbiont Theory - Podcast (6.9 Mb)

Reading: Uprooting the Tree of Life, W.F. Doolittle (2000)

23. 10/22 Eukaryotes Get It On - Podcast (5.8 Mb)

24. 10/24 Neoproterozoic Extremes - Podcast (7.2 Mb)

Reading: Snowball Earth, P.F. Hoffman and D.P. Schrag (2000)

25. 10/26 The Garden of Ediacara - Podcast (6.3 Mb)

26. 10/29 Embryogenesis: How to Build an Animal - Podcast (6.5 Mb)

Reading: The Origin of Animal Body Plans, D. Erwin, J. Valentine, and D. Jablonski (1997)

27. 10/31 The Cambrian Explosion - Podcast (6.3 Mb)

28. 11/2 The Early Paleozoic - Podcast (6.8 Mb)

29. 11/9 Life in the Middle Paleozoic - Podcast (5.5 Mb)

30. 11/12 Invasion of the Land and the Late Paleozoic Ice Age - Podcast (6.8 Mb)

31. 11/14 The Late Paleozoic and End Permian Catastrophe - Podcast (6.4 Mb)

Reading: The Mother of Mass Extinctions, D. Erwin (1996)

32. 11/16 The Triassic: Recovery Interrupted - Podcast (6.4 Mb)

33. 11/19 The Jurassic and Cretaceous: Roots of the Modern World - Podcast (7.2 Mb)

34. 11/26 The Early Cenozoic - Podcast (7.4 Mb)

35. 11/28 Cenozoic Cooling: A Story of Tectonics and Climate - Podcast (6.7 Mb)

36. 11/30 The Quaternary: A Story of Orbit and Climate - Podcast (7.1 Mb)

Reading: The Earth's Orbit and the Ice Ages, C. Covey (1984)

Reading for Interest: Ancient Lakes of the Sahara, K. White and D. Mattingly (2006)

37. 12/3 The Meaning of Earth History - No podcast

The Leading Edge of Earth History Knowlege: Click Here for Slides Stemming from Student Questions