Introduction to Paleontology
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth with the Smithsonian and an award-winning professor.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: History on a Geological Scale
- 02: Life Cast in Ancient Stone
- 03: Tools of the Paleontological Trade
- 04: How Do You Fossilize Behavior?
- 05: Taxonomy: The Order of Life
- 06: Minerals and the Evolving Earth
- 07: Fossil Timekeepers
- 08: Fossils and the Shifting Crust
- 09: Our Vast Troves of Microfossils
- 10: Ocean Fire and the Origin of Life
- 11: The Ancient Roots of Biodiversity
- 12: Arthropod Rule on Planet Earth
- 13: Devonian Death and the Spread of Forests
- 14: Life's Greatest Crisis: The Permian
- 15: Life's Slow Recovery after the Permian
- 16: Dinosaur Interpretations and Spinosaurus
- 17: Whales: Throwing Away Legs for the Sea
- 18: Insects, Plants, and the Rise of Flower Power
- 19: The Not-So-Humble Story of Grass
- 20: Australia's Megafauna: Komodo Dragons
- 21: Mammoths, Mastodons, and the Quest to Clone
- 22: The Little People of Flores
- 23: The Neanderthal among Us
- 24: Paleontology and the Future of Earth
Taught by
Stuart Sutherland
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