Preview of a four-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the origin of vertebrates. Students will explore the diversity of Palaeozoic lineages within a phylogenetic evolutionary framework. This course examines the evolution of major vertebrate novelties including the origin of fins, jaws, and tetrapod limbs. Students also explore key Canadian fossil localities including the Burgess Shale (British Columbia), Miguasha (Quebec), and Man on the Hill (Northwest Territories).
The University of Alberta boasts some of the world's best dinosaur researchers and also holds one of the most extensive fossil collections available for research. This, coupled with our proximity to some of the richest dinosaur bone beds on the planet and our modern laboratories, means we continue to attract top students and researchers to our dinosaur programs. Simply put, UAlberta is one of the best places in the world to study paleontology.
