TY - GEN AU - Martin,Anthony J. AU - Hawks,John ED - Teaching Company TI - Major transitions in evolution T2 - The Great courses SN - 9781598036824 (set) AV - LB 14.6 M379m 2010 U1 - 370 PY - 2010/// CY - Chantilly, Virginia PB - The Teaching Company KW - Education. KW - Teaching KW - Educación KW - Enseñanza KW - Evolución (Biología) KW - Evolución humana N1 - 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. N2 - An overview of significant evolutionary transitions in the 4 billion-year history of life ER -