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.
Overview
Syllabus
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- 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
Taught by
Anthony Martin
