{"id":44,"date":"2012-09-20T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:00:11","slug":"evolution-and-extinctions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/teaching\/evolution-and-extinctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of Earth &amp; Its Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EES 0837 &#8211; Evolution of Earth &amp; Its Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Earth is our home, but few of us stop to consider in detail how it works and changes.&nbsp; Although popularly applied mostly to biological systems, the word evolution simply means \u201cchange through time\u201d.&nbsp; This course intends to foster understanding of the Earth as an evolving and changing interconnected system across the vast expanse of 4.5 billion years of geologic history.&nbsp; Where did we come from?&nbsp; How did we get where we are now?&nbsp; What can we expect in the future?&nbsp; Through hands-on experience with fossils and rocks, students discover how to decode information about past Earth environments and ecosystems and the implications of this knowledge for understanding current and future global issues.&nbsp; Special focus is given to major interactions between the living and non-living parts of the Earth system, including major mass extinction events, many of which have been linked to climate shifts with disastrous consequences for living organisms.&nbsp;&nbsp; Assignments at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wagner Free Institute of Science<\/a> also introduce students to scientific resources in the Philadelphia area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EES 0837 &#8211; Evolution of Earth &amp; Its Life The Earth is our home, but few of us stop to consider in detail how it works and changes.&nbsp; Although popularly applied mostly to biological systems, the word evolution simply means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/teaching\/evolution-and-extinctions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1345,"featured_media":34,"parent":42,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/291"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}