A new history of life
(2013)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Great Courses, 2013
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1 online resource (36 video files (approximately 1080 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT12214217, 12214217
LANGUAGE
English
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Professor Stuart Sutherland, the University of British Columbia, lecturer

A New History of Life tells this all-embracing story of life on Earth - its origins, extinctions, and evolutions - in 36 lavishly illustrated lectures that assume no background in science. At half an hour per lecture, you cover the entire 4.54-billion-year history of Earth in 18 hours, averaging 70,000 years per second!

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS

Episode 1

The Interconnected Earth

Episode 2

The Vast Depths of Earth Time

Episode 3

Fossil Clocks

Episode 4

Paleontologists as Detectives

Episode 5

The Shifting Surface of Planet Earth

Episode 6

Earliest Origins - Formation of the Planet

Episode 7

Origins of Land, Ocean, and Air

Episode 8

The Early Chemical Evolution of Life

Episode 9

Hints of the First Life Forms

Episode 10

How Life Transformed the Early Earth

Episode 11

Snowball Earth - Another Crisis

Episode 12

Metazoans - Life Grows Up

Episode 13

Incredible Variety - The Cambrian Explosion

Episode 14

Window to a Lost World - The Burgess Shale

Episode 15

The Forgotten Fossils in Earth's Story

Episode 16

Introduction to the Great Mass Extinctions

Episode 17

The Collapse of Earth's First Eden

Episode 18

Making the Break for Land

Episode 19

Getting a Backbone - The Story of Vertebrates

Episode 20

The Evolution of Jaws

Episode 21

These Limbs Were Made for Walking?

Episode 22

Tiktaalik - The Search for a Fishapod

Episode 23

Carboniferous Giants and Coal

Episode 24

Amniotes - The Shape of Things to Come

Episode 25

Permian Extinction - Life's Worst Catastrophe

Episode 26

Finding the Killer - The Greenhouse Earth

Episode 27

The Dinosaurs Take Over

Episode 28

Letting the Dinosaurs Speak - Paleobehavior

Episode 29

Conquering the Air - The Evolution of Flight

Episode 30

Monsters of the Deep - Mesozoic Oceans

Episode 31

The Cretaceous Earth - A Tropical Planet

Episode 32

The Sky Is Falling - End of the Dinosaurs

Episode 33

The Collision of North and South America

Episode 34

The Rise of Mammals and the Last Ice Age

Episode 35

The Humble Origins of Human Beings

Episode 36

The Conscious Earth

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