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Schedule for Fall 2018 |
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Lecture |
Assignments |
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Week 1 |
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Tuesday, 1/16 |
Course Syllabus
Lecture 1: What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
PDF |
Reading: The Mistaken Extinction,
pp. 1-20
Prologue
Chapter 01 - the Seductive Allure of Dinosaurs
Chapter 02 - Earlier Extinction Hypotheses
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Thursday, 1/18 |
Lecture 2: The Discovery of Time
PDF |
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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Week 2 |
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Tuesday, 1/23 |
Lecture 3:Collecting Evidence |
Multimedia CD:
Collecting Triceratops
Multimedia CD:
Plate Tectonics
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Thursday, 1/25 |
Lecture 4: Earth Structure & Evolution
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2009/J09-030.html |
Reading: pp. 43-66
Chapter 05 - Fatal Impact |
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Week 3 |
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Tuesday, 1/30 |
Lecture 5: Sedimentation and Fossilization
PDF |
Reading: pp. 67-74
Chapter 06 - the Search for the Smoking Gun
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Thursday, 2/01 |
Lecture 6: Uniformitarianism & the Fatal Impact
Impact Sites
The
Chicxulub Debate
Asteroid Hypothesis 2010
Multiple Causes 2010
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Reading: pp. 75-90:
Chapter 07 -
Patterns of Survival and Extinction
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Week 4 |
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Tuesday, 2/06 |
Exam I |
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Thursday,
2/08 |
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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Week 5 |
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Tuesday, 2/13 |
Lecture 8: The Vertebrate Skeleton
PDF |
Multimedia CD: Archosaur
Anatomy |
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Thursday, 2/15 |
Lecture 9: Vertebrate Origins |
Reading: pp. 105-124
Chapter 9 - Living
Dinosaurs?
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes
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Week 6 |
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Tuesday, 2/20 |
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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Thursday,
2/22 |
Lecture 11: Life on Land & Early Reptiles |
Reading: pp. 141-168
Chapter 11- Dinosaurs
and the Hierarchy of Life
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes (continued...)
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Week 7 |
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Tuesday, 2/27 |
Lecture 12: The Archosaur Revolution and the Origin of Dinosaurs |
Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes (continued...)
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Thursday, 3/01 |
Lecture 13: The Origin of Dinosaurs
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Multimedia CD:
Vertebrate Cladogram
&
Cladogram Quizzes (complete)
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Week 8 |
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Tuesday, 3/06 |
EXAM II
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Thursday,
3/08 |
no lecture
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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, 3/13 |
Spring Break
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stay out of trouble
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Thursday, 3/15 |
Spring Break |
stay out of
trouble
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Week 10 |
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Tuesday, 3/20 |
Lecture 14: Dinosaur Diversity: an Introduction to Ornithischia
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Reading: pp. 195-206
Chapter 13 - Death by Decree |
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Thursday, 3/22 |
Lecture 15: Dinosaur Diversity: Sauropodomorphs and Basal Theropods |
Reading: pp. 207-228
Chapter 14 - The Road to Jurassic Park |
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Week 11 |
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Tuesday, 3/27 |
Lecture 16: Feathered Dinosaurs |
Reading: pp. 207-228
Chapter 14 - The Road to Jurassic Park
(completed)
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Thursday, 3/29 |
Lecture 17: The Origin of Birds |
Reading: pp. 229-244
Chapter 15 - Crossing the Boundary
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Week 12 |
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Tuesday,
4/03 |
Lecture 18: Patterns of Avian (Dinosaurian) Diversification
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/nzbirds/
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Reading: pp. 245-263
Chapter 16 - Diversification and Decline
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Thursday,
4/05 |
Lecture 19: The Lives of Birds |
Reading: pp. 245-263
Chapter 16 - Diversification and Decline
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Week 13 |
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Tuesday, 4/10 |
Exam III |
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Thursday, 4/12 |
Lecture 20: Synapsid
Evolution & Origin of Mammals |
Reading: pp. 285-296
Chapter 18 - The
Third Wave
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Week 14 |
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Tuesday, 4/17 |
Lecture 21: The Real
Great Dinosaur Extinction |
Reading: pp. 285-296
Chapter 18 - The
Third Wave
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Thursday, 4/19 |
Lecture 22:
Human
Evolution
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p. 297-301
Epilogue
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Week 15 |
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Tuesday,
4/24 |
Lecture 23:
Human
Diversification & Impact
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TBA |
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Thursday, 4/26 |
Lecture 24: The Real
Great Dinosaur Extinction
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TBA
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Week 16 |
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Tuesday, 5/02 |
Lecture 25: Course Summary
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TBA
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Thursday,
5/04 |
Exam IV (comprehensive) |
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