The “Life in the Universe” lecture series moves this week from cosmological mysteries to the unanswered questions about how life on Earth evolved.
The audiences for the lecture series have already heard from an astronomer and a planetary scientist.
Monday, the biologists take over, with Brian Enquist, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, exploring how those chemical building blocks created during formation of our solar system became the diverse and complex life that exists on Earth.
The seven-part Monday lecture series then continues Feb. 16 with biologist Anna Dornhaus talking about how the interactions of organisms lead to diversity and complexity.
After that, the forum goes back to the planetary scientists, astronomers and cosmologists, who will explore the possibility that life has evolved elsewhere in the universe — and where and whether we might find it.
Brian Enquist
