EEB 122 - Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

Lecture 19 - The Fossil Record and Life's History

author: Stephen C. Stearns, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
recorded by: Yale University
published: April 17, 2010, recorded: February 2009, views: 2943
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The fossil record holds a lot of evolutionary information that can't be seen on shorter time scales, although the more recent fossil record is more complete. Among other things, the fossil record demonstrates that extinctions can open up ecological space for new speciation and radiation, and that life forms tend to begin small and evolve to be bigger over time.

Reading assignment:

Stearns, Stephen C. and Rolf Hoekstra. Evolution: An Introduction, chapter 17

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1 alan sharples, July 30, 2010 at 10:37 p.m.:

The volume is too low ! When I can hear the lecture Ill review it. Alan Sharples

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