Unit information: Palaeontology in 2008/09

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Unit name Palaeontology
Unit code EASC20008
Credit points 10
Level of study I/5
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1A (weeks 1 - 6)
Unit director Dr. Robinson
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

EASC10001
Co-requisites

None
School/department School of Earth Sciences
Faculty Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

Major features of evolution as revealed by the fossil record; Precambrian life; the Cambrian explosion; the colonisation of land; the age of the dinosaur; the age of mammals; human evolution.

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