Скачать или смотреть Lecture 2024_02: The Burgess Shale and life 508 million years ago

There's so much to know about the Burgess Shale and its relevance to the Cambrian Explosion that it'd be impossible to fit all this information even into a whole year's worth of podcasts!

If you've ever wanted to have that kind of detail, then your only option has been to enrol on a palaeo degree and to sit a module on the Cambrian Explosion.

So instead of having go through all that, we've teamed up with Dr Alejandro Izquierdo-Lopez to bring you this university-level series of lectures introducing you to what is arguably the world's most famous lagerstätte and to one of the most significant evolutionary events in life's history.

In this second part, we're introduced to the Burgess Shale itself. Where is it what is its history of its research? What was the depositional environment like during the Cambrian and why are the fossils preserved so well?

Series structure:

1. The Cambrian Explosion and the diversification of animals
2. The Burgess Shale and life 508 million years ago
3. Early animal evolution 1: from sponges to vertebrates
4. Early animal evolution 2: the origin of shells and jaws
5. Early animal evolution 3: the rise of arthropods


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