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Doc Lee Hsiang Liow
4.9.2013: Wed 13.15 - 16.00 C108, Physicum
9.9.2013: Mon 12.15 - 14.00 remote online/video teaching
(Exactum A114, video room)
11.9.2013: Wed 12.15 - 14.00
16.9.2013: Mon 12.15 - 14.00
18.9.2013: Wed 12.15 - 14.00
2.10.2013: Wed 13.15 - 16.00 C108, Physicum
(2 cr )
Evaluation: Writing assignments, each lecture excercises
Writing a Wikipedia entry for a selected narrow paleobiology
theme (non quantitative)
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questions in paleobiology
interconnectivity among biology, paleontology,
geology and climate science
history of “quantitative paleobiology”
why quantification is important
what are models and why there are differences
between mathematical and statistical models
the importance of models (and comparison to
hypothesis testing)
why bother with confidence intervals (an illustration)
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MSc Mikko Haaramo,
period 1, 9.9–20.10.2013,
4 cr
Mon and Fri 10–12, (C108, 20 students)
Evaluation: 1 credit presence, 3 credits final
examination.
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1. Origin of Vertebrates and Evolution of Jawless Vertebrates.
2. Origin and Evolution of Jawed Fishes.
3. Transfer to Land – Evolution of Amphibians.
4. Farewell to Water –Origin and Early Evolution of Amniotes.
5. Seamonsters – The Great Marine Amniotes of Mesozoic and
Cenozoic Oceans.
6. Scaled Brotherhood – Mesozoic Small Reptiles.
7. Dragons of the Land – Evolution of Archosauria.
8. Dragons of the Air – Evolution of Flight in Vertebrates.
9. Ears, Whiskers and Milk – the Origin and Evolution of Synapsid
Amniotes and Mesozoic Mammals.
10. Empire Established – Evolution of Therian Mammals from the
Late Jurassic to the Present Day.
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PhD Diana Pushkina
23.9–3.12.2013, Tue 12–14, C108 (15 students),
periods 1–2, 22.10 no lectures
4 cr
Evolution and diet
demonstrations and practical works
Evaluation: 2 credits for exam based on lectures and
suggested material, 1 credit for essay, 1 cr for presence.
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mammalian diet change through time and methods studying it,
early and modern human diet and environment
Introduction to mammalian teeth and digestive systems,
the main features and basic differences between major groups,
how they are related to diets and environment.
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24.9 Lecture 1. Basic ideas, Introduction to mammals, osteology
01.10 Lecture 2. Introduction to teeth, morphology
08.10 Lecture 3. Demonstration, skulls, teeth
15.10 Lecture 4. Methods: teeth as proxy to environment:
morphology (hypsodonty, crown type), structure (mesowear,
microwear, GISWear), chemistry (isotope analysis)
29.10 Lecture 5. Diet and digestive system in mammals
05.11 Lecture 6. Early mammal diets, carnivory and carnivores
12.11 Lecture 7. Evolution of herbivory and herbivores, omnivory
19.11 Lecture 8. Primate diets, early hominine and human diet
26.11 Lecture 9. Homo changing environments, diets, change in
human diets over time
03.12 Lecture 10. Human substinence and evolutionary nutrition
(fossil versus modern)
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Lectures and practicals
Prof. Fortelius
15.1.2014 - 14.5.2014: (3 cr) BSC-level
Tue 14.15 - 16.00 B121, Exactum
Practicals: Fossil Recognition
18.1.2014 - 10.5.2014: Fri 10.15 - 12.00 C108, Physicum
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Prof. Mikael Fortelius, Prof. Heikki Seppä, PhD Anu
Kaakinen,
13.1–24.2.2014 and 10.3–14.4.2014, Mon 12–14, (C108,
20), 2-4 cr
Previous topics: Miocene-Pliocene transition, Mass
extinctions
Evaluation: presence 1 cr, presentation 2 credits, essay
1cr
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Lectures and labs:
Prof. Mikael Fortelius,
31.3–4.4.2014 and 14.4–16.4.2014, 4 cr
Mon 10–12,
Tue and Wed 10–16,
Thu 10–14, and
Fri 12–14,
(C108, 20)