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The Edges of Life Lecture Series

This series was presented in Spring 2008

Defining Life's Edges: The Origins of Life
Roy Parker, Regent's Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Life's Extreme Edge: The Limits of Organic Life on Earth and Other Planets
Jonathan Lunine, Professor, Planetary Sciences and Physics
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Life's Final Edge? The Origin and Extinction of Species in a Human-Dominated Earth
Michael Rosenzweig, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Life's Cognitive Edge: The Role of The Mind and What It Means To Be Human
Anna Dornhaus, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Life's Human Edge: Changing Perspectives on the End of Life
Michael Gill, Associate Professor, Philosophy
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Life's Technological Edge: The Singulaity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil, via Teleportec Teleporter Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kurzweil Technologies
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The lectures are being videotaped and made available as podcasts on the UA's iTunes U public site itunes.arizona.edu.