Martin, Anthony J., 1960-

Major transitions in evolution / Anthony Martin ; John Hawks. - Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2010. - 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (viii, 116 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) - Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. . - The Great courses . - The Great Courses .

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.

9781598036824 (set) 1598036823


Education.
Teaching.
Educación
Enseñanza
Evolución (Biología)
Evolución humana

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