2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): Breakthroughs in Paleontology: The Paleontological Society Centennial Symposium
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180 Breakthroughs in Paleontology: The Paleontological Society Centennial Symposium



Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, General Assembly Theater Hall A
Presiding:
Jere H. Lipps and J. William Schopf
8:00 AM
180-1
The Earliest History of Life: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma
J. William Schopf, Univ of California
8:20 AM
180-2
Lifting the Veil on the Rise of Animals during the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian Explosion of Life
David J. Bottjer, Univ of Southern California
8:40 AM
180-3
Breakthroughs in Paleobotany: The Rise of Plants on Land and Origin of Complex Reproductive Systems
Ruth A. Stockey, University of Alberta
9:00 AM
180-4
A History of Vertebrate Success: Fish, Dinosaurs, Horses, Whales, and Bats
Philip D. Gingerich, The Univ of Michigan
9:20 AM
180-5
Major Changes Over the History of Life: Origins, Radiations and Extinctions
Steven M. Stanley, University of Hawaii
9:40 AM
180-6
Human Origins and Evolution: From Ardi to Lucy to Us
Tim D. White, University of California at Berkeley
10:00 AM
180-7
Extraordinary Preservations: More Than Rare Stills In the Movie of Life
Derek E.G. Briggs, Yale University
10:20 AM
180-8
Extraordinary Preservation of Plants and Fungi: Symbiosis and Beyond
Thomas N. Taylor, University of Kansas; Edith L. Taylor, University of Kansas; Michael Krings, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
10:40 AM
180-9
Probing the Deep Sea Sediment Record: Open Ocean History and Biotic Evolution
James Kennett, University of California Santa Barbara
11:00 AM
180-10
Movers and Shakers in 20th Century American Paleontology
J. Thomas Dutro Jr, United States Geological Survey (retired)
11:20 AM
180-11
G.G. Simpson and the Neo-Darwinian Revolution
Léo F. Laporte, University of California at Santa Cruz
11:40 AM
180-12
Paleontology and the Public--The Last 100 Years
Jere H. Lipps, University of California
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