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E&ES104

The History of Life
E&ES104 FA

Photo Caption and Credits

Next Offered in 9899 FA

This course is an in-depth review of the connection between the fossil record and the rock record. Topics include: the formation of the Earth, the origin of life during the Precambrian, plate tectonic movements throughout Earth history, invertebrate adaptive radiations, the origin of the vertebrates and their major ecological subdivisions, the diversification of the tetrapods, and common threads of evolution and extinction of organisms interwoven with the evolution of the Earth itself.

MAJOR READINGS

Textbook to be chosen; assigned readings
from Scientific American and other periodicals.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two one-hour exams and a comprehensive final.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

One or two local field trips.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture Field trips

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: NSM E&ES

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

"A drifting Scyphomedusa jellyfish"

Reference:

Duxbury, Alyn C. and Alison B. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD'S OCEANS, 4ed, Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1994


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