Extinctions: Past and Present Week 3 - Bringing life to its knees

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2017-03-17

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38639
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Bringing_life_to_its_knees.pdf (378.63 KB)

Week-3_Video-2_Bringing life to its knees.mp4 (184.17 MB)
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Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya
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Department of Biological Sciences
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In this video, Professor Anusaya Chinsamy-Turan explores the development of reptiles and dinosaurs and how they laid the ground for the future development of birds and mammals. She then explores important details about the third mass extinction event. She focuses on the loss of biodiversity and the recovery period that followed while exploring several hypotheses for why this extinction event occurred. This is video 2 in Week 3 of the Extinctions: Past and Present MOOC.
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mass extinctions
loss of biodiversity
reptiles
evolution of mammals
therapsid radiation

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Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2017. Extinctions: Past and Present Week 3 - Bringing life to its knees. [MOOC]. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38639

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