• ECTS

    4 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

  • Hourly volume

    27h

Description

"This UE will take the form of a series of a dozen lectures/seminars on current research themes in vertebrate paleontology and evolutionary biology; biodiversity and paleobiodiversity of continental ecosystems (animal); topographical and climatic barriers vs. dispersal and vicariance; community structuring, trophic chains through time and paleoguilds; role of Geodynamics and contingency (crises). The main objective is to acquire a good knowledge of current research themes/axes in the paleontological/evolutionary community".

Read more

Objectives

"Acquire a good knowledge of current research themes/axes in the paleontological/evolutionary community; Develop critical thinking skills, Synthesize disparate information; Aggregate data around cross-cutting themes and axes in paleontology. "

Read more

Necessary prerequisites

Good knowledge of past biodiversity and vertebrate taxonomic groups.

Read more

Knowledge control

100% continuous assessment

Read more