Aug 29, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HBA 550 - Vertebrate Evolution


Survey of the fossil record of vertebrate evolution. The course emphasizes the origin, phylogeny, comparative and functional morphology, biogeography, and paleontology of vertebrate animals. Laboratory included. The lectures and laboratories will utilize an extensive collection of comparative anatomical material, fossil casts, and slides.

4 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Offered Spring, alternate years