Extinctions: Past and Present Week 2 - Setting the stage for the diversity of life

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2017-03-17

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Week-2_Video-1_Setting the stage for the diversity of life.mp4 (81.29 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 outlines the topic of two major extinction events that will be discussed in subsequent videos: the end of the Ordovician and the end of the Devonian. She introduces Tetsuto Miyashita who will talk about the diversification of early vertebrates and the origin of jawed fishes. She then introduces Rob Guess who talk talk about the diversity of fossils present in a locality in South Africa.
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mass extinctions
Ordovician period
Devonian
early vertebrates
fossils
South Africa

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Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2017. Extinctions: Past and Present Week 2 - Setting the stage for the diversity of life. [MOOC]. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38648

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