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Course no. 1657

Disc 1. History on a Geological Scale ; Life Cast in Ancient Stone ; Tools of the Paleontological Trade ; How Do You Fossilize Behavior? ; Taxonomy: The Order of Life ; Minerals and the Evolving Earth -- Disc 2. Fossil Timekeepers ; Our Vast Troves of Microfossils ; Ocean Fire and the Origin of Life ; The Ancient Roots of Biodiversity ; Arthropod Rule on Planet Earth -- Disc 3. Devonian Death and the Spread of Forests ; Life's Greatest Crisis: The Permian ; Life's Slow Recovery after the Permian ; Dinosaur Interpretations and Spinosaurus ; Whales: Throwing Away Legs for the Sea ; Insects, Plants, and the Rise of Flower Power -- Disc 4. The Not-So-Humble Story of Grass ; Australia's Megafauna: Komodo Dragons ; Mammoths, Mastodons, and the Quest to Clone ; The Little People of Flores ; The Neanderthal Among Us ; Paleontology and the Future of Earth

Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth

Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: approx. 30 min

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook

Lecturer: Professor Stuart Sutherland, The University of British Columbia

DVD

In English; closed-captioned