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    Extinctions: Past and Present Week 3 - Plant and insect diversification
    (2017-03-17) Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya; Anderson, John
    In this video, Professor Anusaya Chinsamy-Turan interviews Emeritus Professor John Anderson who reflects on how the End Permian extinction event wrought profound changes in the plant diversity of the time. He discusses specific examples of the change in the kinds of plants present before and after the End Permian event.
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    Extinctions: Past and Present Week 5 - Threats to plants
    (2017-03-17) Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya; Muasya, Muthama
    In this video, Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan interviews Professor Muthama Muasya, a plant scientist, about the threats facing plants from humans' impact on their habitats. He discusses how plants show up in the fossil record, and some of the existing threat to the plant species in the Western Cape region of South Africa. This is video 3 in Week 5 of the Extinctions: Past and Present MOOC.