Studying Climates and Carnivores, Past and Present, to Better Understand the Future
Date and Time
- Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, Noon PDT
Location
- Zoom
Cost
- Free
- RSVP required
Categories:
Paleontology is about using the present to find out about the past, and using the past to find out about our future. Learn about how climate change in the past can inform us about the possible outcomes of our current human-driven climate change. You’ll also learn how looking at animals today can help us figure out what animals did for a living millions of years in the past, using carnivorous mammals as a model. Dr. Anthony Friscia will discuss this and his research, which spans multiple continents and millions of years of Earth’s history.
About the Speaker |
Dr. Anthony Friscia is the director of the UCLA Cluster Program and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology. He is a mammalian paleontologist and functional morphologist, who studies how the shape of organisms, both living and extinct, relates to their ecologies. He teaches courses on biological evolution and human anatomy, and has won a number of teaching awards for his efforts. He is co-editor of a volume on fossil mammalian carnivores, "Carnivoran Evolution: Form, Function, and Phylogeny" (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and author of numerous articles on topics ranging from carnivores to birds, and from the local La Brea Tar Pits to fossils from Africa. He has been doing field work in Kenya since 2009, and has traveled extensively throughout Africa. |
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