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Paleontology & Evolutionary Biology Dept

The Paleontology & Evolutionary Biology Department teaches students to reconstruct evolutionary history by combining fossil-record and comparative-anatomy data with phylogenetic modeling and extinction-dynamics simulation. Students apply real fossil data to phylogenetic-tree analysis and extinction simulation as project work, graduating ready to take their first steps as researchers who reconstruct and interpret past biodiversity using fossil evidence together with quantitative models.

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Field-based Curriculum · 13

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Vertebrate Paleontology
Vertebrate Paleontology
A course on the vertebrate fossil record, centred on why comparative anatomy is …
Richard Owen
Invertebrate Paleontology
Invertebrate Paleontology
A course on invertebrate fossils covering the morphology, classification, and ec…
James Hall
Micropaleontology
Micropaleontology
A course on microfossils, covering identification of major groups—foraminifera, …
Alcide d'Orbigny
Paleobotany
Paleobotany
A course on the fossil record of plants, having students reconstruct the major t…
Albert Seward
Dinosaur Paleontology
Dinosaur Paleontology
A course on dinosaur paleontology, using the Dinosauria as the working material …
Othniel Charles Marsh
Mass Extinction Studies & Paleobiological Statistics
Mass Extinction Studies & Paleobiological Statistics
A course on mass extinction and quantitative paleobiology, training argumentatio…
David M. Raup
Human Paleontology & Paleoanthropology
Human Paleontology & Paleoanthropology
A course on the human fossil record and paleoanthropology, having students work …
Eugène Dubois
Taphonomy
Taphonomy
A course on taphonomy, teaching how everything that happens between an organism'…
Ivan Yefremov
Comparative Embryology
Comparative Embryology
A course on comparative embryology, teaching the von Baer tradition of reading p…
Karl Ernst von Baer
Evolutionary Systematics & Cladistics
Evolutionary Systematics & Cladistics
A course on the principles of cladistics, instilling Hennig's principle that onl…
Willi Hennig
Population Genetics & the Modern Synthesis
Population Genetics & the Modern Synthesis
A course on population genetics and the modern synthesis, connecting the mathema…
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Biostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
A course on biostratigraphy, training the concept of the biozone and the practic…
Charles Lapworth
Mammalian Paleontology
Mammalian Paleontology
A course on the mammalian fossil record, teaching why functional characters such…
William Diller Matthew