Biodiversity & Evolutionary History audio walk

• Englanninkielinen versio

Jyväskylän Yliopisto / Evoluutiopajat

Casková Michaela, Hirvonen Tiina Arjukka, Käppi Anu, Lindstedt-Kareksela Carita

2020

With the help of this material, you can travel back in time to explore the origins species familiar to us. The audio tracks serve as introduction to animal and plant biology, evolution and interaction between species, mixing them with exercises that engage with listeners embodied imagination.

You are surrounded by bryophytes, which evolved almost 500 million years ago, and trees, whose evolutionary history dates back to 400 million years ago.

The ancestors of the modern dragonfly that flies by you, started to colonize the land at the same time as the first plants and their fungi partners. Organisms evolve constantly in interaction with each other, also today.

Have you ever thought, how far back in time the history of species dates to? How has the biodiversity of our planet evolved?

With the help of this material, you can travel back in time to explore the origins of squirrels, pines or dragonflies and other species familiar to