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OLLI=Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Sonoma State University
"For those 50 years old or better"

PDFs of OLLI lectures will be posted here after each presentation
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Nicole' Future OLLI Courses through SSU

OLLI Winter 2025
Skeletal Evolution & Earth History

Registration opens Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 &
OLLI Preview is January 8th at 10am in Stevenson Hall at SSU

6-week series on Fridays 1:30-3:30pm from 
January 31st - March 7th
HYBRID! In Person at SSU & via Zoom
We are supported by the skeleton within us, and it is continually changed by our experiences on Earth as we eat, drink, resist gravity, and age. Humans and all the mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds have inherited our skeleton from the first vertebrate ancestors that lived in the oceans more than 500 million years ago. Join me on a journey through half a billion years of the evolution of the skeleton, and an exploration of the comparative anatomy of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Learn about the features of your human skeleton, how your bones allow you to explore Earth, and the ways that we can all support the integrity of our skeleton.

Course Materials

Course materials will be posted here

​Past OLLI Courses I Have Taught at SSU
  • Fall 2017: The Dinosaur Revolution: Fossils Finds & Avian Genetics
  • Fall 2018: Catastrophism: How Natural Disasters Have Affected Earth and Human Evolution
  • Fall 2019: Geology of California
  • Spring 2020: Geology of the National Parks (cancelled due to the pandemic)
  • Spring 2021: Volcanic Cataclysms That Changed The World
  • Fall 2021: Geology of the National Parks
  • Summer 2022: How Geology Formed California
  • Spring 2022: The Story of Earth Conveyed by Rocks
  • Fall 2022: Age of the Reptiles - Evolution of Scales & Feathers During the Mesozoic Era
  • Spring 2023: Climate Change
  • Summer 2023: Pangaea Supercontinent
  • Fall 2023: Journey of the Continents
  • Winter 2024: Catastrophism & Civilization
  • Fall 2024: Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands

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