DVD
Major transitions in evolution
Item details
- ISBN: 1598036823
- ISBN: 9781598036824
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Physical Description:
videorecording
videodisc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 116 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) - Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [c2010]
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Twenty-four lectures/30 minutes per lecture. "Course no. 1518"--Disc labels. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. Macroevolution and major transitions ; Paleontology and geologic time ; Single, celled life, prokaryotes to eukaryotes ; Metazoans, the earliest multicellular animals ; The development of skeletons ; The rise of vertebrates -- disc 2. Colonization of the land ; Origins of insects and of powered flight ; Seed plants and the first forests ; From fish to 4-limbed animals ; The egg came first, early reptile evolution ; The origins and successes of the dinosaurs -- disc 3. Marine and flying reptiles ; Birds, the dinosaurs amoung us ; The first flowers and polinator coevolution ; Egg to placenta, early mammal evolution ; From land to sea, the evolution of whales ; Moving on up, the first primates -- disc 4. Apes, swinging down from the trees ; From 4 legs to 2, the hominin radiation ; First humans, toolmakers and hunter, gatherers ; From homo to sapiens, talking and thinking ; Our accelerating evolution ; Reflections on major transitions. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Taught by Professor Anthony Martin, Emory University, and Professor John Hawks, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, NTSC. |
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| Subject: | Evolution (Biology) |
| Genre: | Educational films. Instructional films. Filmed lectures. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Feature films -- United States. |
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