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Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A personal insight, from the world's favourite naturalist, into Darwin's theory of evolution, exploring why it is more important now than ever before. Beautifully shot, this is the start of a series of celebrations of the man behind the theory that changed the world's thinking. But more than that, this is a labor of love for a man who has been at the forefront of natural history programming for decades.
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This program explores Earth's age, uncovers fossils and traces evolution through the geological time periods. It also examines continental drift, studies cockroaches, early communication, and the role of mass extinctions throughout history.
5) Monkey trial
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The trial of John Scopes, a Tennessee biology teacher arrested in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The Scopes trial was America's first major media event.
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to their high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design. This idea states that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The source of the earth's great variety of animals was a scientific mystery until Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection. Nova presents breakthroughs in a new science nicknamed "evo devo" that are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's mysteries, the development of embryos.
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