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CONTACT:j.siggers@imperial.ac.uk
ORGANIZER:Imperial College London
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DESCRIPTION:_Professor Jennifer A Clack ScD FLS\, Professor and Curator of 
 Vertebrate Palaeontology\, University Museum of Zoology\, presents: 'Struct
 ural and functional problems of the fish-tetrapod transition' as part of th
 e Department of Bioengineering's Seminar Series._
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\nThe transition from 
 living in water to living on land was solved gradually by vertebrates betwe
 en about 370 and 350 million years ago.  For the first time\, the vertebrat
 e skeleton had to cope with stresses imposed on it by gravity\, and those i
 mposed on it by the needs of feeding on terrestrial prey\, by requirements 
 of breathing in air rather than in water\, and by those of sensory systems 
 functioning in a very different medium.  We can infer some of the changes t
 hat were made by simple observation of the fossil forms\, but new technique
 s are providing means to understand them more deeply.  The talk will look a
 t some of the answers that have been put forward by conventional means\, an
 d  then outline some of the new problems that we hope to solve in the futur
 e using new techniques.
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SUMMARY:Structural and functional problems of the fish-tetrapod transition
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LOCATION:Imperial College London Mechanical Engineering Building Room 664
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