Department of Geological Sciences - Michigan State UniversityMichigan State University
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Research Focus Areas - Global and Biological Change

Paleobiology | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

The Ancient Life Systems group studies the evolutionary history of organisms in the context of biological and physical responses to large-scale deep-time changes in ancient global geography, climate, and macroecology, and how these responses are recorded in the geologic record and relate to past and present-day patterns of biodiversity.