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课程名称：Dino 101: 恐龙古生物学 课程概述： Dino 101: 恐龙古生物学是一个包含12节课程的综合性课程，主要讲述非鸟类恐龙的相关知识。课程内容包括恐龙的解剖、饮食、运动、生长、环境与行为适应、起源与灭绝等主题。课程通过博物馆、化石准备实验室和挖掘现场进行授课，预计每周学习时长为3-5小时。 课程大纲： 1. **外观与解剖**：介绍恐龙外观的多样性，并能够识别主要恐龙群体的特征。 2. **死亡与化石化**：讲解化石的形成过程、骨骼和骨床的化石学解释，以及化石记录中可能出现的偏差。 3. **饮食**：考察恐龙的食物种类、进食习惯及适应特征。 4. **运动方式**：帮助学生理解主要恐龙群体的运动模式和风格，并描述评估运动假说的方法。 5. **出生、成长与繁殖**：提供恐龙的生命周期概述，涵盖从出生到成年的过程，包括繁殖，评估恐龙生长阶段与速率的主要技术。 6. **攻击与防御**：考察恐龙生涯中可能用于攻击和防御的行为与结构。 7. **物种是什么？**：教授物种定义的不同方式，比较不同物种概念在不同情境下的优缺点。 8. **进化**：描述物种形成的基本理论，讨论不同物种形成方法的假设与实证例子。 9. **地层学与地质时间**：提供基本的地层学概念和地球历史的尺度，了解恐龙在时间上的演化及其演化发生的时间和地点。 10. **古地理与板块构造**：介绍板块构造的基本概念及地球表面的演变。 11. **恐龙起源**：探究恐龙从非恐龙类古爬行动物的演化过程。 12. **恐龙灭绝**：研究白垩纪末灭绝事件，提供在此事件中幸存和灭绝的脊椎动物群体的例子。 该课程深入探讨恐龙的多方面，通过丰富的实地材料，帮助学生全面理解恐龙的生活环境与演变历程。
Name:Appearance and Anatomy
Description:This lesson covers the diversity in dinosaur appearances, and will be able to identify major features of the major groups of dinosaurs.
Name:Death and Fossilization
Description: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.
Name:Eating
Description:This module looks at the variety of food types, feeding habits, and feeding adaptations amongst the major groups of dinosaurs.
Name:Moving Around
Description: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.
Name:Birth, Growth and Reproduction
Description: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.
Name:Attack and Defense
Description:Examines the behaviours and structures that may have served for attack or defence through the lifetime of a dinosaur.
Name:What is a Species?
Description: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.
Name:Evolution
Description: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.
Name:Stratigraphy and Geologic Time
Description: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.
Name:Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics
Description:This module presents the basic concepts in plate tectonics and the evolution of the earth’s surface.
Name:Dinosaur Origins
Description:This module will look at the evolution of dinosaurs from non-dinosaurian archosaurs.
Name:Dinosaur Extinction
Description:The module will examine the end-Cretaceous extinction event, and provide examples of vertebrate groups that both persisted and died out during the event.
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.
