Confronting Prior Conceptions In Paleontology Courses

Author : Margaret M. Yacobucci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108717837

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Confronting Prior Conceptions in Paleontology Courses by Margaret M. Yacobucci Pdf

People hold a variety of prior conceptions that impact their learning. Prior conceptions that include erroneous or incomplete understandings represent a significant barrier to durable learning, as they are often difficult to change. While researchers have documented students' prior conceptions in many areas of geoscience, little is known about prior conceptions involving paleontology. In this book, data on student prior conceptions from two introductory undergraduate paleontology courses are presented. In addition to more general misunderstandings about the nature of science, many students hold incorrect ideas about methods of historical geology, Earth history, ancient life, and evolution. Of special note are student perceptions of the limits of paleontology as scientific inquiry. By intentionally eliciting students' prior conceptions and implementing the pedagogical strategies described in other Elements in this series, lecturers can shape instruction to challenge this negative view of paleontology and improve student learning.

Author : Roy Plotnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231551311

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Explorers of Deep Time by Roy Plotnick Pdf

Paleontology is one of the most visible yet most misunderstood fields of science. Children dream of becoming paleontologists when they grow up. Museum visitors flock to exhibits on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. The media reports on fossil discoveries and new clues to mass extinctions. Nonetheless, misconceptions abound: paleontologists are assumed only to be interested in dinosaurs, and they are all too often imagined as bearded white men in battered cowboy hats. Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the field’s aims, methods, and possibilities, with an emphasis on the compelling personal stories of the scientists who have made it a career. Paleontologists study the entire history of life on Earth; they do not only use hammers and chisels to unearth fossils but are just as likely to work with cutting-edge computing technology. Plotnick presents the big questions about life’s history that drive paleontological research and shows why knowledge of Earth’s past is essential to understanding present-day environmental crises. He introduces readers to the diverse group of people of all genders, races, and international backgrounds who make up the twenty-first-century paleontology community, foregrounding their perspectives and firsthand narratives. He also frankly discusses the many challenges that face the profession, with key takeaways for aspiring scientists. Candid and comprehensive, Explorers of Deep Time is essential reading for anyone curious about the everyday work of real-life paleontologists.

Author : Meyer, David L.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781108899482

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Elements of Paleontology: Crinoid Feeding Strategies: New Insights from Subsea Video and Time-Lapse by Meyer, David L. Pdf

Author : Holland, Steven,Katharine M. Loughney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108898584

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Elements of Paleontology: The Stratigraphic Paleobiology of Nonmarine Systems by Holland, Steven,Katharine M. Loughney Pdf

The principles of stratigraphic paleobiology can be readily applied to the nonmarine fossil record. Consistent spatial and temporal patterns of accommodation and sedimentation in sedimentary basins are an important control on stratigraphic architecture. Temperature and precipitation covary with elevation, causing significant variation in community composition, and changes in base level cause elevation to undergo predictable changes. These principles lead to eight sets of hypotheses about the nonmarine fossil record. Three relate to long-term and cyclical patterns in the preservation of major fossil groups and their taphonomy, as well as the occurrence of fossil concentrations. The remaining hypotheses relate to the widespread occurrence of elevation-correlated gradients in community composition, long-term and cyclical trends in these communities, and the stratigraphic position of abrupt changes in community composition. Testing of these hypotheses makes the stratigraphic paleobiology of nonmarine systems a promising area of investigation.

Author : David Sepkoski,Michael Ruse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226275710

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The Paleobiological Revolution by David Sepkoski,Michael Ruse Pdf

The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the seismic changes in the discipline. In so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse harness the energy of the past to call for further study of the conceptual development of modern paleobiology.

Author : David E. Shi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195106534

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Facing Facts by David E. Shi Pdf

In Facing Facts, David Shi provides the most comprehensive history to date of the rise of realism in American culture. He vividly captures the character and sweep of this all-encompassing movement - ranging from Winslow Homer to the rise of the Ash Can school, from Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Dreiser. He begins with a look at the antebellum years, when idealistic themes were considered the only fit subject for art (Hawthorne wrote that "the grosser life is a dream, and the spiritual life is a reality"). Whitman's assault on these otherworldly standards coincided with sweeping changes in American society: the bloody Civil War, the aggressive advance of a modern scientific spirit, the emergence of photography and penny newspapers, the expansion of cities, capitalism, and the middle class - all worked to shake the foundations of genteel idealism and sentimental romanticism. The public developed an ever-expanding appetite for concrete facts and for art that accurately depicted them. As Shi proceeds through the nineteenth century, he traces the realist impulse in each major area of arts and letters, combining an astute analysis of the movement's essential themes with incisive portraits of its leading practitioners. Here we see Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., shaken to stern realism by the horrors of the Civil War; the influence of Walt Whitman on painter Thomas Eakins and architect Louis Sullivan, a leader of the Chicago school; the local-color verisimilitude of Louisa May Alcott and Sarah Orne Jewett; and the impact of urban squalor on intrepid young writers such as Stephen Crane. In the process of surveying nineteenth-century cultural history, Shi provides fascinating insights into thespecific concerns of the realist movement - in particular, the nation's growing obsession with gender roles. Realism, he observes, was in part an effort to revive masculine virtues in the face of effeminate sentimentality and decorous gentility. By the end of the nineteenth century, realism had displaced idealism as the dominant approach in thought and the arts. During the next two decades, however, a new modernist sensibility challenged the fact-devouring emphasis of realism: "Is it not time", one critic asked, "that we renounce the heresy that it is the function of art to record a fact?" Shi examines why so many Americans answered yes to this question, under influences ranging from psychoanalysis to the First World War. Nuanced, detailed, and comprehensive, Facing Facts provides the definitive account of the realist phenomenon, revealing its essential causes, explaining why it played so great a role in American cultural history, and suggesting why it retains its perennial fascination.

Author : Sidney Billing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Materialism
ISBN : NYPL:33433070229426

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Scientific Materialism and Ultimate Conceptions by Sidney Billing Pdf

Author : Frank Perlin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004414921

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City Intelligible by Frank Perlin Pdf

Perlin conjoins philosophical and socio-cultural anthropologies to derive universal foundations of human reason in terms of which cultural difference may both logically and historically be understood. Global commodification before industrialisation offers abundant evidence for the translatability of all cultures.

Author : Herve Le Guyader
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226470911

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Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire by Herve Le Guyader Pdf

A professor at twenty-one and member of the Napoleon's Egyptian expedition at twenty-six, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a man of one idea, which he formulated when he was twenty-four. Nature, he thought, had formed all living beings with one single plan. This was a revolutionary idea—and one vigorously opposed by Geoffroy's colleague Georges Cuvier, a great anatomist and one of the giants of French science. In 1830, their long-running disagreement erupted into furious public debate. Geoffroy argued that all vertebrates shared the same basic body plan not just with each other but with insects as well. Cuvier strenuously disputed this idea, which he saw as tantamount to a belief in "transformism"—arguing instead that each species had its own special and permanent form. With Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Hervé Le Guyader provides an analysis not only of that infamous debate but also of Geoffroy's bold intuitions about anatomy and development. Featuring Geoffroy's published version of the 1830 debates—translated into English for the first time—the book also illustrates how Geoffroy's prescient insights foreshadowed some of the most recent discoveries in evolutionary and developmental biology.

Author : Juliana Leme,Shuhai Xiao,Dermeval Aparecido Do Carmo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832501184

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Precambrian Paleontology by Juliana Leme,Shuhai Xiao,Dermeval Aparecido Do Carmo Pdf

Author : Page Keeley
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780873552554

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science: 25 formative assessment probes by Page Keeley Pdf

V. 1. Physical science assessment probes -- Life, Earth, and space science assessment probes.

Author : Boria Sax
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789140156

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Dinomania by Boria Sax Pdf

From Jurassic Park to Sue the T-Rex and Barney, our dino love affair is as real, as astonishing, and as incomprehensible as the gargantuan beasts themselves. At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture, and physiology. We envision them in diverse and contradictory ways, from purple friends to toothy terrors—reflecting, in part, our changing conceptions of ourselves. Not unlike humans today, dinosaurs seem at once powerful, almost godly, and helpless in the face of cosmic forces even more powerful than themselves. In Dinomania, Boria Sax, a leading authority on human-animal relations, tells the story of our unlikely romance with the titanic saurians, from the discovery of their enormous bones—relics of an ancient world—to the dinosaur theme parks of today. That discovery, around the start of the nineteenth century, was intimately tied to our growing awareness of geological time and the dawn of the industrial era. Dinosaurs’ vast size and power called to mind railroads, battleships, and factories, making them, paradoxically, emblems of modernity. But at the same time, their world was nature at its most pristine and unsullied, the perfect symbol of childhood innocence and wonder. Sax concludes that in our imaginations dinosaurs essentially are, and always have been, dragons; and as we enter a new era of environmental threats in which dinos provide us a way to confront indirectly the possibility of human extinction, their representation is again blending with the myth and legend from which it emerged at the start of the modern age. Fun and ferocious, and featuring many superb illustrations of dinosaurs from art, popular culture, film, and advertising, Dinomania is a thought-provoking homage to humanity's enduring dinosaur amour.

Author : Lloyd Thacker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674019776

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College Unranked by Lloyd Thacker Pdf

The presidents and admission deans of leading colleges and universities remind readers that college choice and admission are a matter of fit, and that many colleges are "good" in different ways. They call for bold changes in admissions policies and application strategies to help schools and applicants fully appreciate what college is really for.

Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UGA:32108057411905

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Nature by Sir Norman Lockyer Pdf

Author : Richard Polt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134574230

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Heidegger by Richard Polt Pdf

Heidegger is a classic introduction to Heidegger's notoriously difficult work. Truly accessible, it combines clarity of exposition with an authoritative handling of the subject-matter. Richard Polt has written a work that will become the standard text for students looking to understand one of the century's greatest minds.