BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//TERMINALFOUR//SITEMANAGER V7.3//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20171012T173000 LOCATION:Braamfontein Campus East Senate Room, 2nd Floor, Solomon Mahlangu House, DESCRIPTION:Professor Roger Smith from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits and the Iziko South µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Museum in Cape Town will present his inaugural lecture.One of the important unresolved research questions relating to the evolution of life on land is: What were the earliest terrestrial vertebrates to inhabit Gondwana?
To answer this question, Smith and a multinational team of palaeontologists have spent several field seasons looking for 300 million year old fossil bones in the hyper-arid Huab river valley of western Namibia, and in the steaming jungles of north-east Brazil.
The lecture will illustrate how fieldwork was conducted in these very different locations, report on current progress in preparing and identifying the new finds, and finish with a discussion of the evolutionary significance of these previously unknown animal communities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Professor Roger Smith from the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits and the Iziko South µÚÒ»³Ô¹ÏÍø Museum in Cape Town will present his inaugural lecture.

One of the important unresolved research questions relating to the evolution of life on land is: What were the earliest terrestrial vertebrates to inhabit Gondwana?


To answer this question, Smith and a multinational team of palaeontologists have spent several field seasons looking for 300 million year old fossil bones in the hyper-arid Huab river valley of western Namibia, and in the steaming jungles of north-east Brazil.


The lecture will illustrate how fieldwork was conducted in these very different locations, report on current progress in preparing and identifying the new finds, and finish with a discussion of the evolutionary significance of these previously unknown animal communities.

SUMMARY:Searching for the earliest tetrapods in Godwana END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR