Lecture 32 --- Astronomy 183 --- Fall 2008

Lecture 32 outline and notes

Detection of life elsewhere

1) Extrasolar planets

2) TPF and Kepler

3) SETI (a teaser)

Eukaryotes and evolution

4) Setting the stage: The Earth 2.5 billion years ago

5) The first eukaryotes

6) The Cambrian explosion

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