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Schedule for Fall 2007 |
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Lecture |
Assignments |
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Week 1 |
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Thursday, 8/29 |
Course Syllabus
Lecture 1: What Happened to the Dinosaurs? |
Reading: The Mistaken Extinction,
pp. 1-20
Prologue
Chapter 01 - the Seductive Allure of Dinosaurs
Chapter 02 - Earlier Extinction Hypotheses
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Week 2 |
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Tuesday, 9/04 |
Lecture 2: The Discovery of Time |
Reading: pp. 21-42
Chapter 03 - Contrasting Volcanic and Impact Hypotheses
Chapter 04 - Enormous Eruptions, Disappearing Seaways
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Thursday, 9/06 |
Lecture 3: Collecting Evidence |
Multimedia CD:
Collecting Triceratops |
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Week 3 |
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Tuesday, 9/11 |
Lecture 4: Earth Structure & Evolution |
Multimedia CD:
Plate Tectonics |
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Thursday, 9/13 |
Lecture 5: Sedimentation and Fossilization |
Reading: pp. 43-66
Chapter 05 - Fatal Impact
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Week 4 |
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Tuesday, 9/18 |
Lecture 6: Uniformitarianism & the Fatal Impact
impact sites |
Reading: pp. 67-74
Chapter 06 - the Search for the Smoking Gun
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Thursday, 9/20 |
Exam I |
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Week 5 |
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Tuesday, 9/25 |
Lecture 7: Evolution, Hierarchy, & Genealogy |
Reading: pp. 75-90:
Chapter 07 -
Patterns of Survival and Extinction
Multimedia CD:
Systematics |
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Thursday, 9/27 |
Lecture 8: The Vertebrate Skeleton |
Reading: pp. 91-104
Chapter 08 - Our
Hazy View of Time at the K/T Boundary
Multimedia CD: Archosaur
Anatomy |
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Week 6 |
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Tuesday, 10/02 |
Lecture 9: Vertebrate Origins |
Reading: pp. 105-124
Chapter 9 - Living
Dinosaurs?
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Thursday, 10/04 |
Lecture 10: Fish-like Vertebrates |
Reading: pp. 125-140
Chapter 10 -
Dinosaurs Challenge Evolution
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Week 7 |
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Tuesday, 10/9 |
Lecture 11: Life on Land |
Reading: pp. 141-168
Chapter 11- Dinosaurs
and the Hierarchy of Life
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Thursday, 10/11 |
Lecture 12: Archosaurs |
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes
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Week 8 - SVP |
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Tuesday, 10/16 |
Lecture 13: The Origin of Dinosaurs |
Multimedia: Dinosaur
Cladogram, Part I
Reading: pp. 169-194
Chapter 12- The Evolutionary Map for Dinosaurs |
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Thursday, 10/18 |
no lecture |
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Week 9 |
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Tuesday, 10/23 |
Lecture 14: Ornithischian Dinosaurs |
Multimedia CD: Dino
Cladogram & Dinosaur
Drill Instructor |
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Thursday, 10/25 |
Exam II |
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Week 10 |
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Tuesday, 10/30 |
Lecture 15: Saurischia |
Multimedia CD: Dino
Cladogram & Dinosaur
Drill Instructor |
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Thursday, 11/01 |
Lecture 16: Early Theropod Diversification |
Multimedia CD: Dino
Cladogram & Dinosaur
Drill Instructor |
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Week 11 |
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Tuesday, 11/06 |
Lecture 17: Origin of Birds |
Reading: pp. 195-206
Chapter 13 - Death by Decree |
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Thursday, 11/08 |
Lecture 18: Mesozoic Bird Evolution |
Reading: pp. 207-228
Chapter 14 - The Road to Jurassic Park |
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Week 12 |
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Tuesday, 11/13 |
Lecture 19: Death by Decree |
Multimedia CD: continued
work with Dino
Cladogram & Dinosaur
Drill Instructor |
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Thursday, 11/15 |
Exam III |
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Week 13 |
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Tuesday, 11/20 |
Lecture 20: Cenozoic Dinosaur Diversification |
Reading: pp. 229-244
Chapter 15 - Crossing the Boundary
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Thursday, 11/22 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 14 |
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Tuesday, 11/27 |
Lecture 21: Origin of Mammals |
Reading: pp. 245-263
Chapter 16 - Diversification and Decline
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
- Synapsids |
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Thursday, 11/29 |
Lecture 22: Human Evolution - The First of Two Waves |
Reading: pp.
265-284
Chapter 17 - The
Real great Dinosaur Extinction |
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Week 15 |
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Tuesday, 12/04 |
Lecture 23: Continental Extinctions
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Reading: pp. 285-296
Chapter 18 - The
Third Wave
and pp. 297-301
Epilogue
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Thursday, 12/06 |
Exam IV (comprehensive) |
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