GGR101H1 Lecture 5: GGR101H1 The Holoecene Prequel- Life and Times of our earliest ancestors up to 12,000 ya. Date, February 7, 2019
8 Feb 2019
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Lecture 5: the holocene prequel: life and times of our earliest ancestors up to 12,000 ya. Lecture 5 outline: survey of quaternary climate change, part 1: climate & history of the quintenary, part 1, part 2: climate & history of the quintenary, part 2. Climate & history of the quaternary, part 1: overview of geochronology or geological history, history of our planet divided into groupings, supereons (higher, eons, periods, epochs (lower) Overview of biotic life on our planet: 3,800 mya history, from single celled organism to anatomically modern humans. Continued climate & history of the quaternary, part 1: overview of the quaternary (2. 6 mya - present, the quaternary period is divided into two epochs, pleistocene (2. 6 - 0. 012 mya, holocene (0. 012 mya - present) Continued climate & history of the quaternary, part 1: overview of the pleistocene (2. 6 - 0. 012 mya, plio-pleistocene boundary (-2. 6 mya, emergence of first homo sapiens, glacial-interglacial cycling.
