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GEOL 204 Dinosaurs, Early Humans, Ancestors & Evolution:
The Fossil Record of Vanished Worlds of the Prehistoric Past

Spring Semester 2020



Assorted fossils from Johann Georg Heck's 1851 Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art

LECTURE RECORDINGS, PART II

DISCONTINUITY -- COVID-19 Outbreak Prevents Lectures in Class. All remaining lectures are recorded at home, broken up into smaller segments.
Lecture: "A Tale of Two Dynasties: The Rise and Fall of Trilobites and Ammonoids"
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Lecture: "'Fearfully Great Lizards': The Rise of the Dinosaurs"
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"Feathered Dragons: Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds"
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Lecture: "The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Dinosaur Physiology"
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  • Lecture: "Drawing Out Leviathan: The Origins of Whales"
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  • Lecture: "Drawing Out Leviathan: The Origins of Whales"
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  • Lecture: "Wild and Wooly: Origins of the Quaternary Ice Age and Its Fauna
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  • Lecture: "The Scatterlings of Africa: The Origins of Humanity" Part I:

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  • Lecture: "Last Man Standing: The Rise of Homo sapiens"
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  • Lecture: "Out of Eden: The Spread of Homo sapiens"
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  • Lecture: "The Call of Distant Mammoths: The Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions"
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  • Lecture: "The Sixth Extinction: The Holocene Extinctions & Modern Defaunations"
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  • Lecture: "Reversing the Tide? Conservation Paleontology, Rewilding, and De-extinction"
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  • Lecture: "The Earth After Us: The Fossil Record of the Anthropocene and Beyond"
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  • Lecture: "What Good is the Fossil Record? Perspectives of the Prehistoric Past"
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    Last modified: 11 May 2020

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    Assorted fossils from Johann Georg Heck's 1851 Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art