Animal Diversity - Vertebrates

Education facts

Code: BL7034

Vertebrate systematics is based on source data from numerous biological disciplines, including significant portions of paleontology as well as morphology, physiology and genetics of extant vertebrates. This course will cover all aspects of vertebrate phylogeny and evolution, starting with hagfish, and exploring the diversification expressed in all the other fish, the reptiles and amphibians, the birds and the mammals, and everything inbetween. In the end you will be convenient to navigate up and down phylogenetic trees and recognize vertebrate taxa by synapomorphies. Course period: January - March

Entry requirements

For admission to the course. knowledge is required equivalent to a Bachelor's degree in Biology. Swedish upper secondary school course English B or equivalent.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Animal Diversity - Vertebrates

  Stockholm University

  Start date: 19 January 2026

  End date: 27 February 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %