These degrees:

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  Palaeontology Practical

  Combine the knowledge and skills base of a degree in geology with the development of expertise in the scientific study of fossils.
• Focus on palaeobiological themes, including all major groups of invertebrate fossils, vertebrate fossils and microfossils.
• Investigate major concepts such as the origin of life, patterns of evolution and extinction, the importance of exceptional fossil biotas, and the relationship between ecology and evolution.
• Include taught field modules with a palaeontological focus.
• Enable you to undertake an independent field-based project which may range from geological mapping in a fossiliferous area to field and laboratory analysis of fossils.
• Provide specialist modules in the third and fourth years including a dissertation and a project on a palaeobiological topic of your choice.

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