{"id":13224,"date":"2023-02-01T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=13224"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:44","slug":"virtual-seminar-wednesday-february-8-2023-12pm-1pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2023\/virtual-seminar-wednesday-february-8-2023-12pm-1pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual\u00a0Seminar\u00a0February 8, 12pm-1pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Virtual Seminar Wednesday February 8, 2023 \u2013 Conf\u00e9rence virtuelle mercredi le 8 f\u00e9vrier 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gregory Funston<\/strong>, PhD<\/strong> <\/strong>(Royal Ontario Museum)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do the meek inherit the Earth? Mesozoic mammal life history as a guide for conservation biology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong> L’histoire de vie des mammif\u00e8res m\u00e9sozo\u00efques comme guide pour la biologie de la conservation\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summary:<\/u><\/strong>  When mammals took over after the dinosaurs, it was not the dominant Cretaceous groups that led the charge. But why did eutherians (our ancestors) survive and thrive after the extinction, whereas others did not? A specialized pace of life\u2014what biologists call life history\u2014suggests that it may have played a key role as an extinction filter. However, virtually nothing is known about life history in Mesozoic mammals\u2014most are represented only by teeth. Now, my research shows that fossil mammal teeth can be used to reconstruct life history in unprecedented detail by combining palaeohistology and geochemistry, revealing daily growth lines and dietary elements locked in fossilized enamel. At the Royal Ontario Museum, I am using these approaches to evaluate the role of life history as a filter in the end-Cretaceous extinction, building towards an ultimate goal of using lessons from deep time to guide modern conservation biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This seminar is open to public.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please register HERE<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>to receive a link to the Zoom event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are welcome to share the flyer with family, friends or colleagues at other institutions and post the registration link on your social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cette conf\u00e9rence est ouverte au public. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veuillez vous inscrire ici<\/strong><\/a> pour recevoir un lien vers l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vous \u00eates invit\u00e9s \u00e0 partager le d\u00e9pliant avec votre famille, vos amis ou vos coll\u00e8gues d’autres institutions et \u00e0 publier le lien d’inscription sur vos m\u00e9dias sociaux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Greg Funston is a Canadian palaeontologist working as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research interests lie in the way that animals grew and how ecosystems evolved over millions of years. Following his lifelong dream to be a palaeontologist, he completed his PhD at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, focusing on the anatomy and evolution of toothless dinosaurs. This took him across the world, from the badlands of Alberta, to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. After a Newton International Fellowship in Scotland, he has also developed an interest in fossil mammals, and how their teeth can be used to understand their life histories and evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Virtual Seminar Wednesday February 8, 2023 \u2013 Conf\u00e9rence virtuelle mercredi le 8 f\u00e9vrier 2023 12:00 \u2013 13:00 (Eastern  Time)   Gregory Funston, PhD (Royal Ontario Museum) Do the meek inherit the Earth? Mesozoic mammal life history as a guide for conservation biology \u201c L’histoire de vie des mammif\u00e8res m\u00e9sozo\u00efques comme guide pour la biologie de la conservation\u201d       Summary:  When mammals took over after the dinosaurs, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-undergrad-opportunities"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-lecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13226,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}