This class is all memorization and its awful. You would think a class about dinosaurs would be fun but it is not at all. He will try to tell you that its not about memorization and rather about logic and understanding phylogenetic trees but really it is memorization of hard to pronounce dinosaur parts and time periods.

Luna is the absolute boy. Super passionate about what he's teaching and a very cool guy. If you're taking an earth class and see luna as the professor, you would be doing yourself a disservice to not take his class. Also memorize your cladograms ;-)

Don't take if you're looking to do minimal work and expect anything above a B. AMAZING lectures with an even more engaging professor. The class is A LOT of memorization but it's not easy as it is about evolution and you need to know each link. My favorite class this quarter, he combines science and philosophy- must take if you can! Go to class!!!!

Luna is one of the best professors Ive had at UCSB. I took the class as a GE and ended up learning a lot more than I anticipated. The content is hard to remember, so start studying the cladograms ahead of time if you want to do well on his tests. Luna is always eager to help you understand the material too since he knows it can be challenging.

Luna is incredibly charismatic and passionate about his field of study. I will carry the lessons I learned from this class into the rest of my life. It's the best class I have taken at UCSB and I am sad he is leaving otherwise I would have taken more classes with him.

Dan is so dreamy, especially when in lecture mode, but the class is fairly challenging, as far as content material. Very heavy on memorization and if it wasn't for the labs, I would have failed. DO NOT take as a GE.