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Major transitions in evolution / Anthony Martin ; John Hawks.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English Series: Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. | The Great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2010.Description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (viii, 116 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)ISBN:
  • 9781598036824 (set)
  • 1598036823
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 M379m 2010
Contents:
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.
Summary: An overview of significant evolutionary transitions in the 4 billion-year history of life.
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Course no. 1518.
24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture ; on 4 videodiscs in 1 container ; with an accompanying guidebook.

"Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Biology."

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.

An overview of significant evolutionary transitions in the 4 billion-year history of life.

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