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To the best of our knowledge, Earth is the only place in the universe that is home to life.
How and why has this life developed? And what were the great explosions of biodiversity that launched the living world?
Join Professor James Crampton as he answers these questions, whilst looking closely at our own stunning fossil record found on the wobbly nugget of rock known as Aotearoa that sits atop the drowned continent of Zealandia.
Speaker Bios
Professor James Crampton is a geologist at Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science.
Over the past 20 years, he has worked on diverse topics from the quantification of biological shape and evolutionary patterns, to the rates and processes driving evolution and extinction in the marine plankton.
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For more information contact: James Crampton
james.crampton@vuw.ac.nz 04 463 8396