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Major transitions in evolution

Title
Major transitions in evolution [videorecording].
Publication
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2010.

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Moving imageUse in library QH366.2 .M346 2010 disc1-4Off-site
Moving imageUse in library QH366.2 .M346 2010 guidebookOff-site

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Additional Authors
  • Hawks, John (John David)
  • Martin, Anthony J.
  • Teaching Company. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91045166
Description
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +
Series Statement
The great courses. Topic, Science & mathematics. Subtopic, Biology
Uniform Title
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.
Subject
Note
  • Course no. 1518.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
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.
ISBN
  • 1598036823
  • 9781598036824
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library