EPS SCI M118Advanced Paleontology
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Ecology and Evolutionary Biology M145.) Consideration of major factors that have influenced history of life, including analytical approaches to analyzing patterns in fossil record, nature of rock record, and contribution of data from stable isotopes, functional morphology, phylogenetics, and developmental biology.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 116 or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 110 or 117.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.90 · from text- · "EE BIOL 117" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EPS SCI M118
- EPS SCI 116Paleontology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- EE BIOL 110Vertebrate Morphology
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 7 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.