Writing Life [Charles Mudede]

Life is truly bizarre, and the more familiar we are with this bizarreness, the richer our writing will be. Taught by a writer – not a biologist – this class will look at the ways scientists have written about the origin, developments, and characteristics of life itself, reading the work of great biologists such as Lynn Margulis, Nick Lane, Bonnie Bassler, and Alexander Oparin. The class will access some of the deepest and most fascinating thoughts about the interconnected system of things that move, dream, make decisions, and reproduce on a thin layer of this rocky planet.