Course content

The course will provide details of the most important fossil invertebrate and vertebrate groups. Special themes will cover the origin of the first multicellular animals, thereafter the evolution of selected sponges, corals, brachiopods, molluscs, graptolites and arthropods, the earliest vertebrates, life on land, reptiles, dinosaurs and mammals including humans.

Learning outcome

The course will provide the necessary knowledge for an independent M.Sc. study in paleontology/palaeobiology.

Admission

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Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

Recommended previous knowledge

A bachelor degree in geosciences, GEO3710 – Evolution of Life (continued).

Overlapping courses

Teaching

Lectures, colloquia and working groups - totally 4 hours per week. Up to 2 days excursions. Obligatory assignments which must be approved before you can take the final exam.

Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet, are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the Studies administration, email address: studieinfo@geo.uio.no

To attend the field trip/excursion it is required that the following course is passed:

You will need to provide documentation that you have passed HMS0504 when you attend the field trip/excursion.

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