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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"This trilogy of short films has been crafted to engage students with memorable examples of the evolutionary process in action. Each film takes students on an adventure - to the deserts of the American Southwest, to the Antarctic, and to East Africa, where they encounter fascinating creatures and pioneering scientists who have revealed how the fittest are made. Produced by award-winning filmmakers Sarah Holt and Bill Anderson, each film illustrates...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Discusses evolution as way plants and animals have changed and developed over millions of years. Covers genes, DNA and natural selection among other topics. Stresses how man is changing the environment faster than most living things can adapt.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-four men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a scientific research project to test the psychological effects of prison life. However, something goes horribly wrong and the experiment ultimately spirals out of control.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A 3-part dramatized documentary series that tells the extraordinary and often harrowing story of Charles Darwin's 30-year struggle to piece together the mystifying puzzle he saw in nature and finally publish his theory about the evolution of life on Earth.
10) Evolution
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Evolution" offers a groundbreaking and definitive view of the extraordinary impact the evolutionary process has had on our understanding of the world around us. Beginning with Darwin's revolutionary theory, this seven-part series explores all facets of evolution--the changes that spawned the tree of life, the power of sex, how evolution continues to affect us every day, and the perceived conflict between science and religion.
THE MIND'S BIG BANG:...
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Shaking Western culture to its very core after its publication 150 years ago, On the origin of species forced humans to rethink their place in the universe. In this lively three-part series, Darwin's passionate disciple, popular author and biologist Richard Dawkins examines evolution and its legacy, confronts Darwin's doubters head-on, and explains natural selection in clear, straightforward terms.
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--www.teach12.com
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...
