Learning Outcomes

1. Analyze data using adequate mathematical tools.
2. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
3. Consider fossils as the most evident proof of biological diversity in the past.
4. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
5. Defend their own results, respecting and discussing the results of others.
6. Describe the main events in life in the past using the current biodiversity on a planetary scale.
7. Gather and synthesize information from scientific literature (library, data bases, online journals, contrasted web pages).
8. Identify and understand the taphonomic processes controlling the fossilization of organic remains.
9. Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
10. Know fossil characteristics for each paleoenvironment to recognise their characteristics.
11. Make a sequence of the set of taphonomic processes undergone by a fossil element in context and establish taphonomic cases.
12. Show a critical and self-critical capacity.
13. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
14. Understand the different mechanisms of evolutive speciation and their evidence or contradictions with the fossil register.
15. Understand the evolutionary changes in the biosphere based on the fossil register and apply them to recognise different stratigraphic units, their limits and their relationships.
16. Understand, recognise and analyse the evolutive aspects evident in the succession of the fossil register.
17. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
18. Use scientific argumentation to justify the results of research.