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Schedule for Fall 2012 |
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Date |
Lecture |
Assignments |
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Week 1 |
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Thursday, 8/30 |
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
assignment: geological time
scale - p. 5
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Thursday, 9/06 |
Lecture 3:
Collecting Evidence |
Multimedia CD:
Collecting Triceratops
Multimedia CD:
Plate Tectonics
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Week 3 |
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Tuesday, 9/11 |
Lecture 4: Earth Structure & Evolution |
Reading: pp. 43-66
Chapter 05 - Fatal Impact |
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Thursday, 9/13 |
Lecture 5:
Sedimentation and Fossilization |
Reading: pp. 67-74
Chapter 06 - the Search for the Smoking Gun
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Week 4 |
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Tuesday, 9/18 |
Lecture 6: Uniformitarianism & the Fatal Impact
Impact Sites
The
Chicxulub Debate Asteriod Hypothesis 2010
Multiple Causes 2010
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Reading: pp. 75-90:
Chapter 07 -
Patterns of Survival and Extinction
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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
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Reading: pp. 91-104
Chapter 08 - Our
Hazy View of Time at the K/T Boundary
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Thursday, 9/27 |
Lecture 8: The Vertebrate Skeleton |
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?
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes
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Thursday, 10/04 |
Lecture 10: Fish-like Vertebrates |
Reading: pp. 125-140
Chapter 10 -
Dinosaurs Challenge Evolution
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes (continued...)
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Week 7 |
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Tuesday, 10/09 |
Lecture 11: Life on Land |
Reading: pp. 141-168
Chapter 11- Dinosaurs
and the Hierarchy of Life
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes (continued...)
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Thursday, 10/11 |
Lecture 12: Early Reptiles |
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes (continued...)
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Week 8 |
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Tuesday, 10/16 |
Lecture 13: The Archosaur Revolution and the Origin of Dinosaurs
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Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes (complete)
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Tuesday, 10/18 |
Lecture 14: Dinosaur Diversity: an Introduction to Ornithischia
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/nzbirds/
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Reading: pp. 169-194
Chapter 12- The Evolutionary Map for Dinosaurs |
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Week 9 |
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Tuesday, 10/23 |
Exam II |
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Thursday, 10/25 |
Lecture 15: Dinosaur Diversity: Ornithischia II
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/britfossils/pdfs/txu-oclc-13370987-1-206.pdf |
Multimedia CD: Dino
Cladogram
Reading: pp. 169-194
Chapter 12- The Evolutionary Map for Dinosaurs
(continued)
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Week 10 |
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Tuesday, 10/30 |
Lecture 16: Dinosaur Diversity: Saurischia I, the Sauropodomorphs
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Multimedia CD: Dino
Cladogram & Dinosaur
Drill Instructor
Reading: pp. 169-194
Chapter 12- The Evolutionary Map for Dinosaurs
(completed) |
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Thursday, 11/01 |
Lecture 17: Dinosaur Diversity: Saurischia II,
the Basal Theropods
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Reading: pp. 195-206
Chapter 13 - Death by Decree |
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Week 11 |
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Tuesday, 11/06 |
Lecture 18: Feathered Dinosaurs
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Reading: pp. 207-228
Chapter 14 - The Road to Jurassic Park |
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Thursday, 11/08 |
Lecture 19: The Origin of Birds |
Reading: pp. 207-228
Chapter 14 - The Road to Jurassic Park
(continued)
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Week 12 |
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Tuesday, 11/13 |
Lecture 20: Living Wtih Dinosaurs- Avian Diversity |
Reading: pp. 207-228
Chapter 14 - The Road to Jurassic Park
(completed)
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Thursday, 11/15 |
Exam III |
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Week 13 |
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Tuesday, 11/20 |
No Lecture
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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: Patterns of Dinosaur Diversification and Decline
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Reading: pp. 245-263
Chapter 16 - Diversification and Decline
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Thursday, 11/29 |
Lecture 22: Human Evolution and The Real Great Dinosaur Extinction |
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: Course Summary
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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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