ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
One of the goals of this course is to synthesize notions and knowledge acquired in animal biology (anatomy, systematics) and ecology to describe and understand the morphology and evolution of vertebrate morphologies. In addition to dealing with present-day groups, this course will focus on extinct fossil groups, especially their contribution to the understanding of the different eco-morphological adaptations (e.g. acquisition or return to aquatic life, acquisition of flight) that have marked the evolutionary history of clades.
This course also aims to provide theoretical and practical bases in phylogeny (cladistics) to trace the evolution of a clade (distance, parsimony and likelihood methods), both on molecular and phenotypic characters (present and fossil).
Necessary pre-requisites
- HAV512H Diversity and evolution of present and past metazoans N3
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Additional information
Person(s) in charge : Guillaume Guinot and Pierre-Olivier Antoine
Contact details of the person(s) responsible (tel/email) : guillaume.guinot @ umontpellier.fr @; pierre-olivier.antoine @ umontpellier.fr @
Targeted competencies
- To know the process of knowledge formation in different disciplines (hypotheses, experimental results, polemical results, mathematical theorems, scientific facts)
- Know how to search for and extract information in a critical manner, prioritize sources of information and identify their reliability, and produce a synthesis
- Know how to carry out a project within a group
- Be able to develop a logical argument with a critical mind (limits, confrontation with the biblio, defense of a point of view)