The habitable Earth Faint young sun paradox the Climate System structure, composition and circulation of the atmosphere and of the ocean. Lecture 14 Timescales of climatic change ALT Part II Global Climatic and Environmental Change (Dr Alex Thomas, ALT) The Gaia hypothesis, an overview of how life has impacted Earth over the course of the last few billion years. Lecture 13 Impact of Life on the Planet SB The end-Permian extinction and rise of the Modern fauna, the Mesozoic Marine Revolution, Mesozoic microfossils and their importance in biostratigraphy, Mesozoic marine reptiles, the diversification of sharks and teleost fishes, whales take to the water Lecture 12 Mesozoic and Cenozoic Oceans SB The end-Cretaceous extinction and the death of the dinosaurs, the earliest mammals and their explosive radiation after the end-Cretaceous extinction, archaic mammals of the early Paleogene, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and the origins of the modern mammal groups, later Cenozoic cooling and the spread of grasslands, the origin of humans The evolution of dinosaurs across their ~160-million-year evolutionary history, the major groups of dinosaurs and their salient features and behaviours, dinosaur evolution and palaeogeography, the origin of birds and invasion of the sky The origin of reptiles and amphibians, synapsid-dominated faunas during the Permian, the formation of Pangea and its effects on terrestrial evolution, the end-Permian mass extinction, the Triassic recovery and rise of archosaurs, the earliest dinosaurs and their competitors, another mass extinction at the end of the Triassic Lecture 9 The Permian and Triassic World on Land SB The earliest forays onto land and the Rhynie Chert of Scotland, the first terrestrial ecosystems, the origin of tetrapods and the rise of vertebrate faunas on land, exciting new tetrapod research in Scotland What causes evolutionary faunas?, the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and the Palaeozoic fauna, end-Ordovician mass extinction, amazing Silurian fossil sites in England and Scotland, conodonts and the origin of bony vertebrates, the origin of fishes and the evolution of jaws The results of the Cambrian explosion: first large predators, modern food webs, substrate revolution, trilobites and other important Cambrian groups, Sepkoskis diversity curve and evolutionary faunas, introduction to mass extinctions.
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Origin of the major animal body plans, Darwin and the theory of evolution, how to read a cladogram Life in the Phanerozoic, the origin of skeletons, the Cambrian Explosion: what it was and what caused it, the phylogeny of animals, the Burgess Shale, how Cambrian environments affected early animals The Proterozoic world, cyanobacteria and the oxygen revolution in Earths atmosphere, origin of eukaryotes, the first multicellular life, Snowball Earth and its effects on evolution, the Ediacaran fauna eukaryotic cells, direct and indirect evidence for the earliest life, the oldest fossils
What is life, what materials are necessary for life?, how did life form?, prokaryotic vs. Part I Origin and Evolution of Life (Dr Stephen Brusatte, SB)īasics of Earth formation and Earth structure, the age of the Earth, the origin of liquid water and the atmosphere, why Earth is an ideal setting for the evolution of life Chemists will benefit from an application of basic chemical principles to complex natural systems, while the course also provides an important background for those interested in temporal phenomena e.g. This course should also be of general interest to Biology students by providing a thorough basis for understanding the geological aspects of global environmental change, and in particular, the evolution of life in this context. These together form the characteristics of the environment in which we live. The interactions between geology, chemistry, physics and biology affecting the origin and evolotion of life, Earth surface processes, and the climate history of the planet are studied. This course is intended as a foundation course for all Earth Science students with emphasis on processes that operate at the global scale. Undergraduate Course: Evolution of the Living Earth (EASC08023) Course Outline School DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Geosciences : Earth Science
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