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New class! GEOL 499 – Spring 2025<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Department of Earth Sciences <\/strong>\n \n November 5, 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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GEOL 499: Phylogenetic Systematics & Dinosaur Evolution<\/strong>
\nSpring 2025
\nInstructor: Dr. Nathan Smith<\/a>, Curator, Natural History Museum of LA County
\nUnits: 4
\nLecture: T\/Th (11:00am\u201312:20pm)
\nLab: (Th 9:00am\u201310:50am)<\/p>\n

Course Description: GEOL 499 Special Topics: Phylogenetic Systematics & Dinosaur Evolution is a four<\/em>
\ncredit course that utilizes dinosaurs as a study system for understanding evolution and phylogenetic<\/em>
\nsystematics. Evolutionary trees (“phylogenies”) provide the framework to both organize biodiversity and test diverse hypotheses in biology, paleontology, and earth history. This class covers the basics of evolutionary thought, including an overview and history of taxonomy, systematics, and phylogenetics; modern methods for generating phylogenetic trees; and comparative phylogenetic methods and applications of phylogenies (e.g., analyses of: ancestral character evolution, coevolution, conservation, biogeography, diversification rates). This course will also present a survey of the Dinosauria, including their taxonomy, evolution, and biogeography. Emphasis will be placed on dinosaur relationships, and how dinosaur evolution has been influenced by major events in earth history (mass extinctions, plate tectonics, climate change, etc.).<\/em><\/p>\n

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This spring (2025) semester Dr. Nate Smith, curator at the Natural History Museum and adjunct professor in our department, will teach a GEOL 499 on Phylogenetic Systematics and Dinosaur Evolution.<\/p>\n

If you have an interest in evolution, paleo and dinosaurs you will find this class to be very informative! Please contact David Bottjer<\/a> or Nate Smith<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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