Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5A · Cal-GETC Area 5C · IGETC Area 5A · IGETC Area 5C · CSU GE Area B1 · CSU GE Area B3DescriptionThis course examines the dramatic events of Earth's creation and development using Darwinian Theory and geologic time by venturing through the fossil record. Students explore Earth's unfolding saga starting from the Big Bang and following the violent tectonic relationships on the planet while investigating past life. Exciting topics include volcanoes, crystals, colliding continents, ancient oceans, radiometric dating, trilobites, dinosaurs, mass extinctions, mammals, the transition of reptiles to birds, and finally the evolution of Homo sapiens. 