UA Lecture Series 2015: Life on Earth: By Chance or By Law?

[botfly10]

Life on Earth: By Chance or By Law?

Brian J. Enquist, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Life on Earth is amazing and multifaceted. Ultimately all of life has descended from one common ancestor and has been guided by evolution by natural selection. On the one hand, the evolution of modern-day diversity and ecosystems may have been contingent on the initial chemical building blocks of life and the historical events that have characterized our planet over geologic time. On the other hand, there are numerous aspects of life pointing to regular and deterministic processes that shape the complexity and diversity of life. This talk will touch on those examples where the laws of chemistry and physics, in addition to evolutionary rules, have resulted in general properties of life. These properties ultimately determine how long we live, the diversity of life, the function and regulation of ecosystems and the biosphere, and how life will respond to climate change.



[video=youtube;1n1w6gcjqz0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1n1w6gcjqz0[/video]


https://ondemand.azpm.org/p/segments/2015/2/13/56708-life-on-earth-by-chance-or-by-law/

 

[botfly10]

So mods, can you fucking wait to move this until AFTER brett starts trolling and derails the shit to same old cyclical bullshit? At least let the thread persist while it is on topic. Move it when it descends to ideological nonsense. But ffs, until then, please no preemptive movement.

 

[botfly10]

oh ****, just realized i posted this in football and not the bar. looks like I'm the asshole.

 

[-Cago34-]

My motherfucking homie, me loves you bot! Keep the shit coming bro. Much appreciated and I'm disliking the **** out of whoever dont like it.

 

[-Cago34-]

oh ****, just realized i posted this in football and not the bar. looks like I'm the asshole.

Who gives a ****? It's the offseason and this is the most interesting thing to hit the Bears forum in months.

 

[Tjodalv]

This video is completely bullshit, even though I didn't watch it. Why? Because Jesus.

 

[-Cago34-]

Not really cool, Tj. Bot is one of the elders among us, and one of the main reasons we're even here. Show a little respect and contribute instead of immediately delving in to the bullshit.

 

[FireFox]

Yeah, we don't need that bs stuff on this board. We have enough of that. They should bring back the CBMB mods. Those guys knew how to run a board. They would never have a prons problem like they do here.

 

[modo]

http://www.stopforumspam.com/

 

[HeHateMe]

Video is trivial and meaningless to me. No where does it explain how one avoids going to hell.

 

[Tjodalv]

Well...at least this thread ended up in the intended place? Perhaps that's the secret: if you want to discuss science post it in the Bears forum so that it will end up in the bar; if you want to discuss religion post a science related topic in the bar so it will be moved to B&I?

 

[Monk]

Boohoo my threads get moved. You science worshippers are so sensitive

 

[Novak]

Boohoo my threads get moved. You science worshippers are so sensitive

Sane people don't "worship" anything.

 

[-Cago34-]

Sorry I was a jerkface to you last night, Tj.

xoxo

 

[Tjodalv]

Sorry I was a jerkface to you last night, Tj.

xoxo

Wait...that was intended to be serious? Now I'm interwebsz butthurt...

 

[Monk]

Sane people don't "worship" anything.

K. No sane people in here so what's you're point?

 

[Monk]

Sorry I was a jerkface to you last night, Tj.

xoxo

That sounds ghey

 

[-Cago34-]

Wait...that was intended to be serious? Now I'm interwebsz butthurt...

I was drunk and looking to e-kick some ass, I should know better than to mess with you by now but I was gonna climb the ladder last night bro.

 

[-Cago34-]

That sounds ghey

You make my wiener tingle.