Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours; one 1-day field trip
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Prerequisites: BIOL 010/GEO 003 with a grade of “C-” or better or BIOL 005C
Description: Emphasis is on understanding fossils as living organisms. Topics include fundamentals of evolution and the fossil record, introductory morphometrics and biosystemic theory, functional morphology, and metazoan organization and classification.