Evolution and Global Environment

SHINOMURA, Tomoko
  Elective  2 credits
【Biosciences・1st semester】
15-1-0395

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Objectives
The goal of Evolution and Global Environment is to reconsider what is life and how has it evolved on planet Earth. Mention will be given to principles of sustainability of energy and water, and advancements of technology for the changes in the global environment of the future.
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Outline
Topics to be covered are as follows:
1. To develop a conceptual framework of the 4.6 billion year history of the Earth.
2. Evidence of chemical evolution, the birth of life, and evolution of living things in accordance with the changes in earth's history.
3. Latest hypothesis of molecular evolution.
4. Technological progress aimed at sustainable society based on the biological law of evolution and prediction for the global environment in the near future.