| Description |
1 online resource (36 video files (approximately 1080 min.)) : sound, color. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Series |
Great courses. Science & mathematics (Biology) |
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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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| 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. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Professor Stuart Sutherland, the University of British Columbia, lecturer. |
| Summary |
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! |
| Audience |
Rated TVPG. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Historical geology.
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Geomorphology.
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Paleontology.
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Evolution.
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Natural selection.
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| Added Author |
Davalos, Anna, producer.
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Leven, Jon, director.
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Allen, Jim, director.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| Music No. |
MWT12214217 |
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