A new history of life /
A new history of life /
Stuart Sutherland ; producer Anna Davalos ; director Jonathan Leven, Jim Allen.
- 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
- DVD 4 3/4 in.
- Great courses. Science & mathematics (Biology) .
- Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. .
Course no. 1520. Program contains thirty-six lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-257) in course guidebook.
The interconnected Earth -- The vast depths of Earth time -- Fossil clocks -- Paleontologists as detectives -- The shifting surface of a planet Earth -- Earliest origins - formation of the planet -- Origins of land, ocean, and air -- The early chemical evolution of life -- Hints of the first life forms -- How life transformed the early Earth -- Snowball Earth - another crisis -- Metazoans - life grows up -- Incredible variety - the Cambrian explosion -- Window to a lost world - the Burgess Shale -- The forgotten fossils in Earth's story -- Introduction to the great mass extinctions -- The collapse of Earth's first Eden -- Making the break for land -- Getting a backbone - the story of vertebrates -- The evolution of jaws -- These limbs were made for walking? -- Tiktaalik - the search for a fishapod -- Carboniferous giants and coal -- Amniotes - the shape of things to come -- Permian extinction - life's worst catastrophe -- Finding the killer - the greenhouse Earth -- The dinosaurs take over -- Letting the dinosaurs speak - Paleobehavior -- Conquering the air - the evolution of flight -- Monsters of the deep - Mesozoic oceans -- The Cretaceous Earth - a tropical planet -- The sky is falling - the end of dinosaurs -- The collision of North and South America -- The rise of mammals and the last Ice Age -- The humble origins of human beings -- The conscious Earth. Lecture 1. Lecture 2. Lecture 3. Lecture 4. Lecture 5. Lecture 6. Lecture 7. Lecture 8. Lecture 9. Lecture 10. Lecture 11. Lecture 12. Lecture 13. Lecture 14. Lecture 15. Lecture 16. Lecture 17. Lecture 18. Lecture 19. Lecture 20. Lecture 21. Lecture 22. Lecture 23. Lecture 24. Lecture 25. Lecture 26. Lecture 27. Lecture 28. Lecture 29. Lecture 30. Lecture 31. Lecture 32. Lecture 33. Lecture 34. Lecture 35. Lecture 36.
Editor, Steven Maniglia, Isil Mengi. Editor, Steven Maniglia, Isil Mengi.
Lecturer: Professor Stuart Sutherland, the University of British Columbia.
"Do you like history, perhaps investigating where your family came from or learning what challenges your ancestry met and where they called home? This course traces some of the wanderings of our wider family, the biosphere, from its first appearance on Earth around 4 billion years ago through to the present day. This journey has been a fantastic one, whit many interesting twists and turns along the way, many high points and more than a few crises."--page 1 of course guidebook.
DVD.
In English.
1598039598 9781598039597
1520 Teaching Company ID1520A-01 Teaching Company (DVD) PB1520A Teaching Company (Guidebook)
Historical geology.
Geomorphology.
Paleontology.
Evolution.
Natural selection.
Evolution.
Geomorphology.
Historical geology.
Natural selection.
Paleontology.
Educational films.
Science films.
Filmed lectures.
Nonfiction films.
551.7
Course no. 1520. Program contains thirty-six lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-257) in course guidebook.
The interconnected Earth -- The vast depths of Earth time -- Fossil clocks -- Paleontologists as detectives -- The shifting surface of a planet Earth -- Earliest origins - formation of the planet -- Origins of land, ocean, and air -- The early chemical evolution of life -- Hints of the first life forms -- How life transformed the early Earth -- Snowball Earth - another crisis -- Metazoans - life grows up -- Incredible variety - the Cambrian explosion -- Window to a lost world - the Burgess Shale -- The forgotten fossils in Earth's story -- Introduction to the great mass extinctions -- The collapse of Earth's first Eden -- Making the break for land -- Getting a backbone - the story of vertebrates -- The evolution of jaws -- These limbs were made for walking? -- Tiktaalik - the search for a fishapod -- Carboniferous giants and coal -- Amniotes - the shape of things to come -- Permian extinction - life's worst catastrophe -- Finding the killer - the greenhouse Earth -- The dinosaurs take over -- Letting the dinosaurs speak - Paleobehavior -- Conquering the air - the evolution of flight -- Monsters of the deep - Mesozoic oceans -- The Cretaceous Earth - a tropical planet -- The sky is falling - the end of dinosaurs -- The collision of North and South America -- The rise of mammals and the last Ice Age -- The humble origins of human beings -- The conscious Earth. Lecture 1. Lecture 2. Lecture 3. Lecture 4. Lecture 5. Lecture 6. Lecture 7. Lecture 8. Lecture 9. Lecture 10. Lecture 11. Lecture 12. Lecture 13. Lecture 14. Lecture 15. Lecture 16. Lecture 17. Lecture 18. Lecture 19. Lecture 20. Lecture 21. Lecture 22. Lecture 23. Lecture 24. Lecture 25. Lecture 26. Lecture 27. Lecture 28. Lecture 29. Lecture 30. Lecture 31. Lecture 32. Lecture 33. Lecture 34. Lecture 35. Lecture 36.
Editor, Steven Maniglia, Isil Mengi. Editor, Steven Maniglia, Isil Mengi.
Lecturer: Professor Stuart Sutherland, the University of British Columbia.
"Do you like history, perhaps investigating where your family came from or learning what challenges your ancestry met and where they called home? This course traces some of the wanderings of our wider family, the biosphere, from its first appearance on Earth around 4 billion years ago through to the present day. This journey has been a fantastic one, whit many interesting twists and turns along the way, many high points and more than a few crises."--page 1 of course guidebook.
DVD.
In English.
1598039598 9781598039597
1520 Teaching Company ID1520A-01 Teaching Company (DVD) PB1520A Teaching Company (Guidebook)
Historical geology.
Geomorphology.
Paleontology.
Evolution.
Natural selection.
Evolution.
Geomorphology.
Historical geology.
Natural selection.
Paleontology.
Educational films.
Science films.
Filmed lectures.
Nonfiction films.
551.7