Here are some highlights:
- Startling: "survival of the fittest" is wrong!
- The wonderful metaphor of the theater in evolution (due to Evelyn Hutchinson)
- A remarkable description of El Niño
- Evolutionary Medicine may be one of the most significant benefits of the theory of evolution
- I was inspired to research the frequency of major geological events (earthquakes, volcanos, etc)
- A poignant discussion on biodiversity
- Biogeochemistry is one of my biggest "discoveries" of the course: it may be one of the most important interdisciplinary fields for Human survival
- I reference the Buckminster Fuller Challenge
- The importance of geography
- A survey of other freely available introductory biology courses
