1
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define stratigraphy
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a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers
2
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define rarefaction
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a statistical technique that uses subsampling to reduce populations to the same size
3
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rock outcrop is…?
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a reliable predictor of sampling bias in the fossil record
APS269 - Palaeobiology
flashcards
Decks in class (19)
# Cards
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Lecture 1 - introduction6
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lecture 1 - reading notes "fibres and cellular structures preserved in 75-million-year-old dinosaur specimens"12
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Lecture 2 - the nature of the fossil record11
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lecture 2 - reading notes "making the best of a patchy fossil record"3
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Lecture 2 - reading notes "shape of Mesozoic dinosaur richness"11
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Lecture 3 - exceptional preservation20
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Lecture 3 - reading notes "an exceptionally preserved lower cretaceous ecosystem"24
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Lecture 4 - taxonomy and phylogeny17
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Lecture 5 - Interpreting past environments12
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Lecture 6 - functional morphology and behaviour12
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Lecture 7 - evolutionary patterns from the fossil record16
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Lecture 8 - Palaeodiversity7
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Lecture 9 - fossils and the molecular revolution16
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Lecture 10 - introduction to human evolution and how we study it25
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Lecture 11 - origin of the hominoidea10
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Lecture 12 - early Homo10
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Lecture 13 - Homo erectus - out of Africa 114
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Lecture 14 - the origin of modern humans and 'out of Africa' 29
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Lecture 15 - evolution of modern humans6
