"The Great courses, Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Biology. "Course no. 1657"--Disc labels. 24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each. Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. Lecturer: Dr. Stuart Sutherland, The University of British Columbia.
Contents:
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 -- Fossils and the shifting crust -- 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.
Summary:
Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth.
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