Grao en Bioloxía |
Subjects |
Paleobioloxía |
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Identifying Data | 2013/14 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Paleobioloxía | Code | 610G02043 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Optativa | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
SECTION-1. | HISTORY AND CONCEPT OF PALEOBIOLOGY |
Lesson 1. An introduction to Paleobiology | 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Theoretical and methodological aspects 1.3 Divisions of Paleobiology |
SECTION-2. | TAPHONOMY |
Lesson 2. The concept of fossil. Taphonomy | 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The concept and types of fossils 2.3 Biostratinomy 2.4 Diagenesis of fossils 2.5 Ichnofossils 2.6 Time-averaging 2.7 Fossil-lagerstätten 2.8 Representativity of the fossil record |
SECTION-3. | BIOSTRATIGRAPHY |
Lesson 3. Biostratigraphy | 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Index fossils 3.3 Biohorizons and Biozones 3.4 Signor-Lipps effect 3.5 Lazarus, Elvis and Zombie taxa |
SECTION-4. | HISTORY OF LIFE |
Lesson 4. Time and Geology | 4.1 Dating methods 4.2 The geologic time scale |
Lesson 5. The origin and early evolution of Earth and Life | 5.1 Origins of the Solar System and Earth. 5.2 Origin and evolution of the Atmosphere. 5.3 Origin of the Hidrosphere. 5.4 Origin and evolution of the continents. 5.5 The first life forms. |
Lesson 6. The diversification of Life | 6.1 The Ediacaran Fauna and other life forms. 6.2 The Cambrian Explosion. 6.3 Evolution of life forms during the Paleozoic. 6.4 Terrestrialization. |
Lesson 7. Mass extinction events | 7.1 Mass extinctions. Causes and their aftermath. 7.2 The end-Permian extinction. 7.3 The end-Cretaceous extinction. |
Lesson 8. Climate and Life | 8.1 Climatic evolution of the planet Earth. 8.2 Global glaciations. Methods of study. 8.3 The Snowball Earth hypothesis. 8.4 The influence of climatic change on the Quaternary faunas and floras. |
SECTION-5. | MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS |
Lesson 9. Size and Shape in Fossils | 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The analysis of morphometrical variability 9.3 Types of growth 9.4 Population variability 9.5 Ecophenotypic variability 9.6 Sexual dimorphism 9.7 Taphonomical variability |
Lesson 10. Ontogeny and Heterochrony | 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Biogenetic and von Baer's Law 10.3 Heterochrony and its types 10.4 Heterochrony and allometry 10.5 Heterochronoclines 10.6 Dissociated heterochrony 10.7 Evolutionary consequences of heterochrony |
Lesson 11. Morphodynamics and the Evolution of Form | 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Constructional morphology. Phylogenetic factor. Functional factor. Fabricational factor. Other factors 11.3 Research methods in morphodynamics. Biomechanical analysis. Theoretical morphology |
SECTION-6. | EVOLUTIONARY PALEONTOLOGY |
Lesson 12. Classification and Phylogeny | 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Methods of classification. Essentialism, evolutionary, phenetic and cladistic classification 12.3 Fossils and Phylogeny. Stratocladistics. Phylogenetic trees |
Lesson 13. Speciation | 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Species concepts 13.3 Modes of speciation 13.4 The problem of species concept in Paleontology |
Lesson 14. Modes of evolution | 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Darwinism and the Synthetic Theory of Evolution 14.3 Modes of evolution and the fossil record. Phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibria 14.5 Evolutionary trends 14.6 Species selection 14.7 Coordinated stasis |
Lesson 15. Biotic crises | 15.1 Introduction 15.2 Concept and types of extinction 15.3 Recovery after a mass extinction 15.4 Effects of mass extinctions on evolution 15.5 Periodicity of mass extinctions |
Lesson 16. Paleobiogeography | 16.1 Introduction 16.2 Dispersal biogeography 16.3 Paleogeography and paleoclimatology 16.4 Vicariance biogeography 16.5 Biogeographic patterns and extinctions |
Lesson 17. Evolutionary ecology | 17.1 Introduction 17.2 Phanerozoic trends in global diversity. Explanatory hypotheses 17.3 Law of constant extinction. Red Queen Hypothesis and alternative explanatory hypotheses 17.4 Clade interactions |
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