Just in case you watched “Creationism vs. Evolution,” and needed some further information, Columbia College Chicago’s Science and Mathematics Spring 2014 Colloquium Series has got you covered.
The vast majority of living vertebrates are gnathostomes: jawed fishes of one kind or another including ourselves.
Today’s gnathostomes can be divided into the bony fishes (spanning Rahm Emanuel, Asian carp, and all points in between), and the cartilaginous fishes (sharks, rays, and ratfishes).
The last common ancestor that you, me, and major Chicago political figures, shared with a great white shark lived more than 423 million years ago.
What was it like? Furthermore, at what point did some more recent ancestor emerge on land?
The aim of this talk will be to introduce some of the more recent data and methods used to investigate our deep evolutionary past, and how this sheds light on a number of issues ranging from genomics to the historical influence of extinctions on modern biodiversity.
Lecture presented by: Dr. Michael Coates, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
Wednesday March 12, 2014
5:00—6:00 p.m.
Ferguson Auditorium
600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st Floor
