EARTH 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Woolly Mammoth, Falsifiability, Geochronology
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Paleontology: the scientific study of fossils to better understand prehistoric life and evolution. A crossroads of geology and evolutionary biology. This course applies important concepts like cladistics, evolutionary morphology, and geochronology. It is important to create your own study guides, since there will not be explicitly given study guides for the midterm and final. Labs are posted on gauchospace, and they need to be printed before section. There is no curve in the class, nor is there any extra credit. Much of what is mentioned in class is simply side stories that will not be on the tests and serve only has interesting anecdotes. There is homework that was posted on gs due next sunday. Fossils that were discovered often spawned myths, such as wooly mammoth skulls believed to be cyclops skulls. And it does not apply to all questions. It is both egalitarian (not democratic) and collaborative. Hypothesis (a reasonable explanation for the observation)
