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A New Approach To The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

Offered By: Arizona State University via World Science U

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Astronomy Courses Astrobiology Courses

Course Description

Overview

Astrobiologist Sara Walker challenges our understanding of life and how we might search for life in the universe by looking for signatures of information-generating structures and applying systems-level analysis.

 

Syllabus

  1. What is Life?
  2. Life at Different Scales
  3. Using the Laws of Information to Search for Life

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