These look a lot harder than they are—the terms are really scary, but they give you a lot of examples, and the test of each unit is 4-5 questions which you have been prepped for. I didn’t get to finish my marine evolution course—nearly did, but time ran out on me, just a schedule problem. But they’ll repeat it and I can start where I left off, which was the last unit in the course. You can learn suffixes like -ine, -oid, and such, prefixes like meso-, di-, a-, and syn- that will make the big names ever so much easier.<\/p>\n
The REASON for the big names is not to confuse outsiders to the field, but to (in one package) give an adept reader a pretty good picture of the critter’s skeleton or relation to other critters without even seeing it. In other words, it’s clan and tribe and family wrapped up in a bundle of prefixes, suffixes and core.<\/p>\n
So once you get onto that, life becomes a lot easier. You can practically visualize where your critter fits on the tree of life. <\/p>\n
The one I didn’t get to complete is Early Vertebrate Evolution. They currently are’t offering that, but may in a month or so. And the last one I completed is Dino 101, which is very broad and a lot of fun. Early Vertebrates is a little more dense, but because I know a lot about fishes, it was very illuminating, too…like our inner ear and a fish’s lateral line are related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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