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Course code: BBS20224o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Paleontology
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Leonid Rekovets
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Students should know about volutionary processes, rules and principals of organic evolution. Character of progress and evolutionary complexity of organisms and their assemblages in association with abiotic environment. Student will have practical knowledge on taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of fossil organism, on directions of their morpho-functional adaptations and on dynamics of palaeaecosystms in particular geological periods.
Competences: After completing the course students will know about evolutionary biology. This will allow students to continue studies in related fields, to carry out research or to be a teacher of biology.
Prerequisites: Geology, Evolutionary geology, Invertebrate Zoology, Vertebrate Zoology.
Course content: Taphonomy and recording of geological time; the origin of life and organisms (speciation), advanced evolution; morphology, function and environment (adaptive origin); principals of the evolution of organisms; principals of palaea-ecology of organisms and biostratygraphy; principals of evolutionary biogeography.
Recommended literature: Raup D., Stenley S. - Podstawy paleontologii. Wyd.PAN Warszawa. 1984. Bieda F. - Paleozoologia T.1,2. Wyd. Geol. Warszawa. 1966. Dzik J. - Dzieje życia na Ziemi. Wyd. PAN Warszawa. 2003. Druszczyc W. - Paleontologia bespozwonocznych. Wyd MGU Moskwa. 1974. Wiszniewska-Żelichowska M. - Paleontologia. Wyd. Geol. Warszawa. 1962. Keroł M. - Paleozoologia pozwonocznych. Wyd. Nauka, Moskwa. 1995.
Assessment methods: Completion of laboratory training, test exam after course, minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.
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