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Join two brilliant and engaging professors on an amazing exploration of evolution's most important moments-the giant leaps that gave rise to nature's boundless diversity.

Syllabus

  • 01: Macroevolution and Major Transitions
  • 02: Paleontology and Geologic Time
  • 03: Single-Celled Life-Prokaryotes to Eukaryotes
  • 04: Metazoans-The Earliest Multicellular Animals
  • 05: The Development of Skeletons
  • 06: The Rise of Vertebrates
  • 07: Colonization of the Land
  • 08: Origins of Insects and of Powered Flight
  • 09: Seed Plants and the First Forests
  • 10: From Fish to 4-Limbed Animals
  • 11: The Egg Came First-Early Reptile Evolution
  • 12: The Origins and Successes of the Dinosaurs
  • 13: Marine and Flying Reptiles
  • 14: Birds-The Dinosaurs among Us
  • 15: The First Flowers and Pollinator Coevolution
  • 16: Egg to Placenta-Early Mammal Evolution
  • 17: From Land to Sea-The Evolution of Whales
  • 18: Moving on Up-The First Primates
  • 19: Apes-Swinging Down from the Trees
  • 20: From 4 Legs to 2-The Hominin Radiation
  • 21: First Humans-Toolmakers and Hunter-Gatherers
  • 22: From Homo to sapiens-Talking and Thinking
  • 23: Our Accelerating Evolution
  • 24: Reflections on Major Transitions
  • By This Professor

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Anthony Martin

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