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This program continues to look at more forces and evidence of evolution in the form of genetic drift and migration. Genetic drift and natural selection are compared by looking at founder effect and bottlenecks. It also discusses speciation including isolating mechanisms, types of speciation, and examples of speciation.
This program defines biological evolution; examines Darwin's development of evolutionary theory; discusses relevant terminology; and begins a discussion of some of the forces that drive evolution including inheritance, random genetic change, and natural selection. Examples and evidence for these evolutionary forces are emphasized throughout.
~ begins with a review of characteristics of science
~ continues by defining biological evolution
~ examines the history of evolutionary theory, including Charles Darwin
~ discusses relevant terminology such as fitness, homology, and analogy
~ examines the chemosynthetic theory of the origin of life
Modern Evolutionary Theory Continued begins a discussion of some of the forces that drive evolution including inheritance, random genetic change, and natural selection. Examples and evidence for these evolutionary forces are emphasized throughout. In addition, this program reexamines the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.
~ additional evidence of evolution such as the fossil record and intermediate fossils, including human evolution
~ punctuated equilibrium and adaptive radiation
~ "evo-devo", i.e. developmental genes and epigenetic controls on development and their relationship to evolution
~ homology in its many forms
William Durham, professor of anthropology and human biology at Stanford University, explains Darwinism: The Modern Synthesis in this second of a two-part program.
William Durham, professor of anthropology and human biology at Stanford University explains Darwinism: Adaptionism and Punctuationism in this first of a two-part program.
William Durham, professor of anthropology and human biology at Stanford University explains Darwinism: Adaptionism and Punctuationism in this second of a two-part program.
William Durham, professor of anthropology and human biology at Stanford University, follows Charles Darwin's Path to a Theory of Evolution in the second of a two-part program.
His brain worked like a machine converting rules and facts into general laws of nature. He was going to become a priest, but instead, created the theory, which struck a crushing blow to the religious thinking of the world. The great biologist and naturalist Charles Darwin wrote, "Nothing is more intolerable than idleness." This visually rich series offers a fascinating look at a broad cross-section of world-renowned individuals. Every historic re-creation explores the most important developments of their very famous lives whether artist, businessman, composer, leader, philosopher, poet, explorer, writer, reformer, scientist or ruler. Viewers will enjoy the focused approach to understanding the emotional state, significant contributions, important benchmarks and major turning points in their incredible lives.
Teaches the basic science of modern evolution theory. Includes a history of how evolution was discovered and reviews present-day controversies. Significantly updated in 2007. Would be of effective help to teachers challenged by students who hold to non-scientific "theories" like Creationism and Intelligent Design.
Part 1. How Theories of Evolution Were Developed. Exclusive Hawkhill on-site video in the Galapagos Islands and at Darwin's study in England help demonstrate the achievement of this pioneer.
Part 2. Evolution by Natural Selection. A straight-forward presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection as it is understood by most biologists today.
In Evolution the keys to scientific literacy include:ages of earth, Age of Reptiles, amphibian, binomial nomenclature, Cenozoic, creationism, Darwin, dinosaur extinction, fossil, genus, heredity, Homo sapiens, Stephen Jay Gould, Lamarck, Linnaeus, Mesozoic, mutation, natural selection, Neanderthal, paleontology, Precambrian, punctuated equilibrium, species, theory, trilobite, vertebrate, Wallace.
Teaches the basic science of modern evolution theory. Includes a history of how evolution was discovered and reviews present-day controversies. Significantly updated in 2007. Would be of effective help to teachers challenged by students who hold to non-scientific theories like Creationism and Intelligent Design.
Part 1. How Theories of Evolution Were Developed. Exclusive on-site video in the Galapagos Islands and at Darwin's study in England help demonstrate the achievement of this pioneer.
Part 2. Evolution by Natural Selection. A straight-forward presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection as it is understood by most biologists today.
Three videos, Charles Darwin Explains the Diversity of Life, The Story of Evolution and The Origin of Species: Creationism and Evolution
Charles Darwin Explains the Diversity of Life.
Come with us to Charles Darwin's home in Down, England; to the South American rainforest; and to the Galapagos Islands to learn how Darwin laid the foundation for modern biology with the revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection.
The Story of Evolution
Explains how life has changed through the ages and how the modern theory of evolution by natural selection shows how these changes have come about. Includes new work on dinosaur extinction.
The Origin of Species: Creationism and Evolution
When Charles Darwin visited the Amazonian rainforest and the Galapagos Islands in 1835 he, along with most of the scientific community of his day, believed in creationism. Come with us to these same sites today to see why he and scientists following him abandoned this theory and replaced it with the theory of evolution by natural selection.
This program explains clearly and convincingly just why creationism was rejected. It also explains the differences between fact and theory in science and explains some lively differences about evolution theory among scientists today.
The Gene
Clearly and simply presents basic information on one of the most important concepts in modern science--the gene. New computer animations help clarify the concepts.
Part 1. How Genes Were Discovered. Dramatizes the history of genetic discovery from Mendel in his monastery garden to Watson and Crick at the Cavendish Laboratory in England.
Part 2. What Is a Gene and How Does It Work? Outlines the basic picture we have today of what a gene is and how it works. Includes new material on cloning and the human genome project.
Evolution
Teaches the basic science of modern evolution theory. Includes a history of how evolution theories were first developed and reviews present-day controversies.
Part 1. How Theories of Evolution Were Developed. Exclusive on-site video in the Galapagos Islands and at Darwin's study in England help demonstrate the achievement of this pioneer.
Part 2. Evolution by Natural Selection. A straight-forward presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection as it is understood by most biologists today.
On Life Science 1 DVD you can have easy access to keys to scientific literacy that include:
Gregor Mendel, Francis Galton, Crick and Watson, mutations, DNA architecture, chromosomes, cloning, sexual reproduction, meiosis, fertilization, DNA replication, differentiation, recombinant DNA, gene guns, human genome project, Dolly, Scopes trial, classification systems, Buffon and Lamarck, Hutton and Lyell, creationism, natural selection, fossil record, chemicals of life, dating fossils, age of reptiles, evolution debate, "scientific" creationism.
Charles Darwin Explains the Diversity of Life
Come with us to Charles Darwin's home in Down, England; to the South American rainforest; and to the Galapagos Islands to learn how Darwin laid the foundation for modern biology with the revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection.
The Story of Evolution
Explains how life has changed through the ages and how the modern theory of evolution by natural selection shows how these changes have come about. Includes new work on dinosaur extinction.
The Origin of Species: Creationism and Evolution
When Charles Darwin visited the Amazonian rainforest and the Galapagos Islands in 1835 he, along with most of the scientific community of his day, believed in creationism. Come with us to these same sites today to see why he and scientists following him abandoned this theory and replaced it with the theory of evlution by natural selection.
This program explains clearly and convincingly just why creationism was rejected. It also explains the differences between fact and theory in science and explains some lively differences about evolution theory among scientists today.
On Evolution DVD you can have easy access to keys to scientific literacy that include:
H.M.S. Beagle, early evolution theories, Carl Linnaeus, Buffon, Lamarck, fossils, James Hutton, Charles Darwin, the Scopes trial, the fossil record, history of life on earth, human evolution, creationism, evolution by natural selection, Galapagos Islands, punctuated equilibrium.
In setting out to answer his central question "Is Evolution Progressive?", Dawkins illustrates the human biases that continue to muddle our understanding of just what evolutionary 'progress' means; from early Victorian influences, to contemporary scientific texts which uncritically invoke 'evolutionary scales' and notions of 'higher' and 'lower' organisms. In turn, Dawkins demonstrates the 'human chauvinistic' definition of progress, and why, if progress is defined from this point of view, it becomes easy to deny any progressive elements to evolution. In response, Dawkins argues that if we use a more biologically sensible definition of progress, evolution can indeed be shown to be progressive in a very important sense.
~ How Life Began. The likely origins of the first living things.
~ The Evolution of Man. How early man evolved from other mammals.
~ The Origin of Species. The theories of evolution from Lamarck to Darwin.
~ A Human Being is Born. The miraculous 9 month journey to the birth of a human child.
Using evolutionary biology, history of science, and social history as his canvas, Gould paints the fascinating picture of how human biases (philosophical, cultural, and spiritual) have continued to resist Darwin's theory, inverting it into its own philosophical opposite. "If there's one thing we desperately want evolution to be, it's a principle that predicts progress¡Kbut it just isn't so."-- Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould presents his definitive treatise on Charles Darwin's unique and radical contribution to evolutionary biology- and why it has been so poorly understood. Filmed before a live audience, this program has been used in colleges, universities, and schools across the US and abroad.
A single great idea: The Theory of Natural Selection. With it, Charles Darwin shattered existing notions of the natural world by demonstrating how complexity could arise as a result of a blind and mechanistic sorting process, without an "intelligent designer". Now, join Daniel Dennett as he illuminates the radical nature of Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
Setting his stage, Dennett illustrates why skeptics insist that beyond "gradual change" evolution must require something supernatural to do the "heavy lifting" of design--miraculous "lifters" which Dennett calls "skyhooks".
Instead, Dennett demonstrates that we don't need miracles or "skyhooks" because evolution gives us "cranes": From sexual reproduction, to multi-cellularity, to language, he illustrates how cranes are new designs which themselves have evolutionary explanations and which, once they exist, become the tools to create previously impossible designs -from birds and humans, to ideas and culture.
Next, Dennett turns to the "memetic revolution", and proposes how memes (the cultural analog of genes) can explain the extraordinary phenomenon of human culture. In surprising fashion, he cites Toxoplasma Gondi and brain fluke parasites (which cause suicidal behavior in their hosts) to suggest why we don't need "skyhooks" to account for uniquely human attributes. He demonstrates how morality, ethics, the appreciation of beauty, or the willingness to die for an ideology are ideas (memes) which have, like parasites hijacking the human brain, superceded the strict imperative of reproductive success.
Daniel Dennett's provocative, and highly entertaining presentation will inspire your students think about the natural world and the nature of human beings in surprising new ways.