Preliminary Club meeting schedule for Spring 2022
11/01 Paleo Book Club
18/01 Journal Club
25/01 Revisiting Wonderful Life Mikko Haaramo, University of Helsinki
01/02 Wording of human evolution Tegan Foister, University of Helsinki
08/02 Hominin environments, Orce, Spain Mikael Fortelius, University of Helsinki
15/02 Alexander von Nordmann’s ‘terrible mistake’:
Finnish scientists and the study of Steller’s sea cow Henry Pihlström, University of Helsinki
22/02 Big trees and tiny fungi – reconstructing the ‘Baltic amber forest’
Jouko Rikkinen, University of Helsinki
01/03 The future of the fossil record Alexis Rojas-Briceno, University of Helsinki
08/03 Rhinos – a History Oscar Wilson, University of Helsinki
15/03 PaleoPint and an introduction to the Paleontological Society of Finland
22/03 Journal Club
29/03 Dinosaurusten aika selkokielellä Maija Karala
05/04 Mikko’s Newsroom
12/04 Adaptations and speciation in tree hyraxes (Dendrohyrax) Hanna Rosti, University of Helsinki
19/04 Records of the Cambrian Explosion in Finnish Lapland – New findings of trace fossils from Kilpisjärvi area
Björn Kröger, University of Helsinki
26/04 The First Great BKK Debate – SJ Gould vs S Conway-Morris
03/05 Measuring complexity in cave bear molars – Mebin Varghese
10/05 Eurovision Fossil Contest
17/05 TBA
24/05 News from Orce – Suvi Viranta, Mikael Fortelius, Anu Kaakinen, Juha Saarinen and Juan Manuel Jimenez-Arenas