Jonathan Payne: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2018 |
| Name | Herr Prof. Dr. Jonathan Payne (Professor Ver.Staat.v.Amerika) |
| Adresse | Friederike Brütsch Sonneggstr. 5, NO G 51.2 Geologisches Institut 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Departement | Erd- und Planetenwissenschaften |
| Beziehung | Gastprofessor |
| Nummer | Titel | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 651-5105-00L | Macroevolution Block course from 28 - 31 January 2019 | 1 KP | 30V | J. Payne, H. Stoll | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | The course is about studying evolutionary trends using large databases. Students will receive training through exercises on posing well-formulated questions that can be tested statistically using existing data, downloading and processing data from databases using the statistical programming language R, and coding and interpreting results from a variety of statistical techniques. | ||||
| Lernziel | |||||
| Inhalt | The course will be set up with a few background lectures on evolutionary trends in the fossil record, covering basic patterns of taxonomic diversity change, extinction selectivity, variations in ecological complexity, and body size evolution. | ||||