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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Emergence of Life by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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    About the Course

    How did life emerge on Earth? How have life and Earth co-evolved through geological time? Is life elsewhere in the universe? Take a look
    through the 4-billion-year history of life on Earth through the lens of the modern Tree of Life! This course will evaluate the entire history of life
    on Earth within the context of our cutting-edge understanding of the Tree of Life. This includes the pioneering work of Professor Carl Woese on
    the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus which revolutionized our understanding with a new "Tree of Life." Other themes include:
    -Reconnaissance of ancient primordial life before the first cell evolved -The entire ~4-billion-year development of single- and ...
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    NM

    Sep 5, 2017

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    Superb instructor!And very precise and detailed information.Thank you so much for putting together such a beautiful course.

    SH

    Dec 2, 2022

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    Excellent course with challenging assignments. I wish the peer-review would be more systematic and timely.

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    Nov 5, 2016

    Very interesting course, with old jazz music at the beginnings of the videos!

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    Nov 7, 2022

    course was good, but I did not do the quizes.

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    Mar 28, 2018

    This course really jumps from one broad aspect to another. I really hate that unlike edX, you cannot really do much without purchasing the course. Whenever you resume, it takes you to the orientation quiz that you can't even submit without buying the course (can't even do an orientation quiz for free?). And if you don't pay attention to what you can or cannot do if auditing the course you can do a whole assignment then find out you can't even submit it. This should be spelled out before you begin.

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    Jul 2, 2021

    The process to obtain a grade is terrible, specially for the Honors assignments. I did them and given that there were no one to grade me, I couldn't have credit for them on the certificate. By the other hand, I enjoyed the course and completing the assignments.

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    Jun 3, 2017

    Good overview course of ALL life even though I was expecting something more on the early emergence of life rather than the Carboniferous-->Mesozoic-->Cenozoic; loses a star for restricting quizzes & activities to only paying members

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    By Joy S

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    Apr 27, 2017

    Different, fun approach. Basic science.

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    By Federico C

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    Aug 1, 2019

    Too broad, too shallow.

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    Dec 20, 2019

    Not really about Emergence of Life - a rather dull presentation...I lost interest; I'm off to the U of Alberta's courses...

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    By Larry S

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    Jan 29, 2021

    Not the course content I wanted. Thought it was a biology course but mostlly palentology, geology, etc. instuctor boring.

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    By Sanda B

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    Sep 20, 2016

    Quizzes and assignments cannot be submitted if course is audited.

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    Oct 23, 2016

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