Evolving Earth and Life: Past and Future Challenges

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This course focuses on fifteen prehistoric events that changed life and the planet forever. These events are relevant to modern-day challenges and provide insights into how humanity might manage and solve current and inevitable future earth crises. Following the adage that humans are destined to repeat a history they do not know, students learn that a study of the deep past is no mere intellectual exercise, but a unique and relevant source of information and solutions, necessary for the short- and long-term survival of the human species. Taught online.