このコースについて： Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology is a 12-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of non-avian dinosaurs. Topics covered: anatomy, eating, locomotion, growth, environmental and behavioral adaptations, origins and extinction. Lessons are delivered from museums, fossil-preparation labs and dig sites. Estimated workload: 3-5 hrs/week.
作成者： University of Alberta
講師： Philip John Currie, PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Dinosaur Paleobiology
Department of Biological Sciences
| レベル | 初級 |
| 所要時間 | 12 weeks of study, 1-2 hours/week |
| 言語 | English, 字幕： French, Italian, German, Spanish |
| 合格するには | すべてのテストに合格すると、このコースを完了できます。 |
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1 週目
Appearance and Anatomy
This lesson covers the diversity in dinosaur appearances, and will be able to identify major features of the major groups of dinosaurs.
7個のビデオ, 4個の学習用教材
- Reading: Instructional Staff
- Reading: Meet Your Presenter: Betsy Kruk
- Reading: Course Glossary
- Reading: Lesson 1 Course Notes
- 動画: Size
- 動画: Skeleton
- 動画: Saurischians
- 動画: Ornithischians
- 動画: Appearance
- 動画: Muscles
評価済み: Appearance and Anatomy
2 週目
Death and Fossilization
This module describes how fossils form, how we interpret the taphonomy of skeletons and bonebeds, and looks at the possible biases taphonomic events may create in the fossil record.
3個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 2 Course Notes
- 動画: Fossilization
- 動画: Field Work
評価済み: Death and Fossilization
3 週目
Eating
This module looks at the variety of food types, feeding habits, and feeding adaptations amongst the major groups of dinosaurs.
4個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 3 Course Notes
- 動画: Teeth
- 動画: Claws
- 動画: Determining Diet
評価済み: Lesson 3
4 週目
Moving Around
This module helps students understand the general modes and styles of locomotion in the major dinosaur groups. It also describes general methods of evaluating hypotheses on locomotion.
4個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 4 Course Notes
- 動画: Limbs
- 動画: Trackways
- 動画: Metabolism
評価済み: Lesson 4
5 週目
Birth, Growth and Reproduction
This module provides a generalized life history of a dinosaur, from birth through adulthood, including reproduction. The student will be able to describe major techniques of evaluating growth stages and rates in dinosaurs.
3個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 5 Course Notes
- 動画: Young Dinosaurs
- 動画: Males & Females
評価済み: Lesson 5
6 週目
Attack and Defense
Examines the behaviours and structures that may have served for attack or defence through the lifetime of a dinosaur.
3個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 6 Course Notes
- 動画: Offensive Adaptations
- 動画: Intraspecific Interactions
評価済み: Lesson 6
7 週目
What is a Species?
This module will teach the different ways of defining what a species is. Students will be able to compare the strengths and weaknesses of different species concepts for different situations.
3個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 7 Course Notes
- 動画: Holotype
- 動画: Differentiating Species
評価済み: Lesson 7
8 週目
Evolution
This module will describe the basic theories of speciation, and discusses how how these different methods of speciation may have occurred, including both hypothetical and empirical examples.
3個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 8 Course Notes
- 動画: Convergence
- 動画: Birds
評価済み: Lesson 8
9 週目
Stratigraphy and Geologic Time
This method provides basic stratigraphic concepts and the scale of earth history. Students will understand the evolution of dinosaurs through time, including which groups evolved when and where.
3個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 9 Course Notes
- 動画: Stratigraphy
- 動画: The Age of Dinosaurs
評価済み: Lesson 9
10 週目
Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics
This module presents the basic concepts in plate tectonics and the evolution of the earth’s surface.
4個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 10 Course Notes
- 動画: Continental Movement
- 動画: Paleoclimates
- 動画: Dinosaur Diversity
評価済み: Lesson 10
11 週目
Dinosaur Origins
This module will look at the evolution of dinosaurs from non-dinosaurian archosaurs.
3個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 11 Course Notes
- 動画: Diapsids
- 動画: Rise of the Dinosaurs
評価済み: Lesson 11
12 週目
Dinosaur Extinction
The module will examine the end-Cretaceous extinction event, and provide examples of vertebrate groups that both persisted and died out during the event.
4個のビデオ, 1個の学習用教材
- Reading: Lesson 12 Course Notes
- 動画: Causes of Extinction
- 動画: Chicxulub Impactor
- 動画: Resurrecting Dinosaurs
評価済み: Lesson 12
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This cours is really well made, well explained. I recommand 100%
A great combination of explaining fundamental material in an easily-digestable manner while still diving into dinosaur paleobiology with an interesting amount of depth!
A really fascinating course.
I wish there would have been more drawings or skeletons when talking about a dinosaur (sometimes it was hard to follow and the pace was too fast. Also, it's always more interesting seeing pictures or maps than the face of the lecturer all the time). Also, I missed professor Philip John Currie. When he lectured the level went really high. But overall it was an excellent course.
Thanks a lot and many greetings from Spain / Antonia Tejeda Barros
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AF
Excellent course! I liked the last reflexive thought: We, the society, should guide our efforts in protect and conserve species in danger and propose practical solutions to solve the contamination problem and the greenhouse effect, instead of trying to resurrect ancient extinct species.