Paleontology and Evolution
Code
10927
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências da Terra
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Miguel Carlos Ferreira Telles Antunes, Octávio João Madeira Mateus
Weekly hours
3
Total hours
78
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Intended learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
- to acquire knowledge of evolution, to understand their mechanisms and to apply in paleontology and taxonomy.
- to understand the concepts of evolution and the mechanisms of natural selection.
-to applying evolutionary concepts and to understanding evolutionary strategies of species or group studies.
Subject matter
Syllabus
1. Evolution
1.1. Fundamentals concepts of evolution
1.2. Species and speciation
1.3. Types of evolution
1.4. Fundamentals concepts of molecular evolution,
1.5. Natural Selection and adaptation
2. The Evolution of Evolution
2.1. Before Darwin; the evolution of Darwin; Neo-Darwinian evolutionary Synthesis.
2.2. Microevolution, Macroevolution and Evo-Devo
2.3. The evidence of evolution
3. Methods of studying evolution and taxonomy
3.1. Phylogeny and Cladistics
3.2. Morphometry
3.3 Taxonomy
3.4. Tools for the study of evolution. Software of Cladistics
4. Evolution and diversity.
4.1. The diversity as a by-product of evolution.
4.2. Origins, extinctions and diversifications
5. The problematic of evolution in Palaeontology