LECTURE RECORDINGS, PART I
Week I (Jan. 27-Jan. 31)
Lecture: Jan. 28 "Into the Darkness of Prehistory: Our Long Quest for Origins"
Lecture: Jan. 30 "Clocks in the Rocks: The Geologic Record & Geologic Time"
Week II (Feb. 3-7)
Lecture: Feb. 4 "Bones in the Stones & Shells in the Shales: Fossils and Fossilization"
Lecture: Feb. 6 "Bringing Fossils to Life: Paleobiology and the Methods of Science"
Concluded:
Week III (Feb. 10-14)
Lecture: Feb. 11 "'What is It?': Identifying Fossils and the Nature of Species"
Lecture: Feb. 13 "Descent with Modification: Evolution & Natural Selection"
Week IV (Feb. 17-21)
Lecture: Feb. 18 "Tempo & Mode: Origins & the Fossil Record"
Lecture: Feb. 20 "The Tree of Life: Reconstructing the Patterns of Evolution"
Concluded:
Week V (Feb. 24-28)
Lecture: Feb. 25 "Earth & Life Through Time; The Broad Pattern of the History of Life"
(Note: Microphone dies in this presentation, so sound quality is poor):
Lecture: Feb. 27 "Climate Emergencies Past & Present: The PETM and the Anthropocene Contrasted"
Concluded:
Week VI (Mar. 2-6)
Lecture: Mar. 3 "Awful Changes: Mass Extinctions"
Lecture: Mar. 5 "Death from Above/Death from Below: The Era-Ending Mass Extinctions Compared"
Concluded:
Week VII (Mar. 9-13)
Lecture: Mar. 10 First Impressions to Shell Games: The Garden of Ediacara and the Cambrian Explosion"
Lecture: Mar. 12 Predators vs.Prey: The Longest Arms Race of All"
Continued on Part II
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