Skills you'll gain

There are 12 modules in this course

The Origins course tracks the origin of all things – from the Big Bang to the origin of the Solar System and the Earth. The course follows the evolution of life on our planet through deep geological time to present life forms.

The early Earth and origin of life

Origin of the microbial world / The Cambrian Explosion and Exceptional Preservation

Transition from Microbial to Macrobial Life: Snowball Earth and the Ediacara Biota / Eukaryotic Evolution and the Phylogeny of All Life

Origin of the marine Cambrian and Palaeozoic Evolutionary Faunas / Diversity in deep time / Origin of predation and the Mesozoic Arms race

Oxygenation and Animals

Origins and Early Development of Plants / The Origin and Diversification of Flowering Plants

The Evolution of Insects and their Role in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Colonization of the continents and the Origin of the Dinosaurs and Birds/Mass Extinction Events and Their Causes

Origin of Recent Climate Change / The Molecular Clock

Primate Origins and Evolution / Human Origins and Evolution

Modern Diversity

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