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Transitional Tetrapod Fossil
A recent fossil discovery in northern Canada sheds new light on the genetic mutations that enabled ancient vertebrates to adapt to life on land. Video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial."
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Evolution and AIDS
Evolution is often thought of as unfolding slowly over great periods of time, yet the virus that causes AIDS can evolve significantly in weeks. Video segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea."
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Evidence for Evolution
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Human Chromosome
This video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm the common ancestry of humans and apes.
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Human Evolution
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The Cambrian Explosion
Watch an animation of creatures of the Cambrian explosion created for Evolution: "Great Transformations."
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Genetic Tool Kit
The shared set of genes for body segments, possessed by all animals, are discussed in this video segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations."
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Evolution of the Eye
Zoologist Dan Erik Nilsson demonstrates how the complex human eye could have evolved from simple light-sensitive cells. From Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea."
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Evidence for Evolution
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Hummingbird Species in the Transitional Zones
This segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" shows biologists Chris Schneider and Tom Smith studying hummingbirds and other animals in Ecuador. Their research is investigating the processes by which new species are formed.
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Evolution of Diversity
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The Nuts and Bolts of DNA Replication
A silent animation illustrates DNA replication, mutation, and base pairs. From Secret of Life: "Immortal Thread."
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Evolution Since Darwin
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Darwin: Reluctant Rebel
This segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," together with interviews with Daniel Dennett and James Moore, depicts Darwin struggling with publicizing his revolutionary theory.
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The Age of Darwin
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Evolving Ideas: Isn't Evolution Just a Theory?
This video for high school students explores the scientific meaning of the word "theory" and illustrates how evolution is a powerful, well-supported scientific explanation for the relatedness of all life.
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What Is Science?
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Hygiene Hypothesis
Dr. Erika von Mutius studies the relationship between early childhood exposure to microbes and the development of asthma and allergies in this segment from Evolution: "The Evolutionary Arms Race."
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What Is Science?
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Evolution of the Eye
Zoologist Dan Erik Nilsson demonstrates how the complex human eye could have evolved from simple light-sensitive cells. From Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea."
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Adaptation and Natural Selction
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Evolution of Camouflage
This segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" illustrates the remarkable camouflage of a praying mantis against its leafy backdrop.
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Adaptation and Natural Selction
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A Mutation Story
This segment describes the role of the sickle cell gene in natural selection. Footage courtesy of the PBS series Secret of Life: "Accidents of Creation."
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Ancient Farmers of the Amazon
This segment from Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race" tells the story of the leafcutter ant and the fungus it farms -- an example of mutually beneficial symbiosis.
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Tale of the Peacock
The peacock provides a classic example of sexual selection, the force behind nature's extravagances. From Evolution: "Why Sex?"
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Songbird Infidelity
Female songbirds take a chance when they are non-monogamous, but their offspring benefit from the genetic variation -- they have a better survival rate. From Evolution: "Why Sex?"
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Toxic Newts
The father and son team of Brodie and Brodie track down the predator able to stomach a mysteriously hyper-toxic newt, an example of an evolutionary arms race in action. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."
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The Red Queen
An example of the Red Queen hypothesis, the sexual population of Mexican Poeciliid fish are able to keep up with a changing environment, while the asexual populations are not as successful. From Evolution: "Why Sex?"
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Asexual Reproducers
This segment explores the benefits and pitfalls of cloning as a means of reproduction. From Evolution: "Why Sex?"
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Jacanas and Polyandry
In response to the threat of crocodiles, female wattled jacanas have evolved an unusual reproductive strategy: polyandry, or "many males." From Evolution: "Why Sex?"
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Sweaty T-Shirts and Human Mate Choice
This segment from Evolution: "Why Sex?" explores the "sweaty T-shirt experiment," which showed that humans may unconsciously be drawn toward a specific kind of genetic variation in a mate.
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Permian-Triassic Extinction
In this program segment from Evolution: "Extinction!", geologist Peter Ward discusses evidence for a Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
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Fish with Fingers
In this video segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations," paleontologist Jenny Clack explains that vertebrates evolved fingers before they invaded land.
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Whale Evolution
How did the whale lose its legs? Find out in this segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations."
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Becoming a Fossil
This video segment describes how the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy could have been fossilized. Footage courtesy of NOVA: "In Search of Human Origins."
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Evidence for Evolution
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Evolving Ideas: How Do We Know Evolution Happens?
This video for high school students focuses on one of the several lines of evidence for evolution -- fossils, highlighting the evolution of whales from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic creatures we know today.
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Common Past, Different Paths
This time-lapse microphotography of developing embryos shows the common ancestry of all vertebrates. Footage from NOVA: "Odyssey of Life."
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The Common Genetic Code
Paul Nurse describes his research that showed that humans share some genes with organisms as different from us as simple brewer's yeast. Footage from Secret of Life: "Immortal Thread."
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Evolving Ideas: How Does Evolution Really Work?
The process of evolution through natural selection is the focus of this video for high school students, which presents a field study of hummingbird speciation in Ecuador.
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Evolution of Diversity
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Evolving Ideas: Did Humans Evolve?
This video for high school students explores the evolution of humans from a common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and other apes.
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Human Evolution
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Chimps And Bonobos
This segment from Evolution: "Why Sex?" looks at the dissimilar social organization of chimpanzees and a closely related species called bonobos.
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Finding Lucy
This video segment depicts the landmark hominid fossil finds by Don Johanson and his team in Ethiopia.
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Laetoli Footprints
This video segment describes how the famous track fossils known as the Laetoli footprints might have been formed and what they can reveal about the creatures who left them.
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Walking Tall
This video segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations" illustrates the differences between the skeletons of a chimpanzee (a knuckle-walker) and a human (a biped).
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Birth of a Language
This segment from Evolution: "The Mind's Big Bang" chronicles the emergence of a new language among deaf children in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
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Jane Goodall
In this interview conducted for the Evolution project, Dr. Jane Goodall describes the search for insights into behaviors of early humans. The background text excerpts Goodall and Phillip Berman's book Reason for Hope.
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Courtroom Controversy
From Evolution: "What About God?", this segment summarizes the struggle between creationism and evolution in the American science classroom, beginning with the Scopes trial in 1925.
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Science, Faith, and Politics
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Emi & Nathan: Personal Testimonies
Two Wheaton College students share their personal struggles between their study of science and their deep religious beliefs. From Evolution: "What About God?"
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Ken Ham: Biblical Literalist
Founder of Answers in Genesis, a creationist organization, Ken Ham discusses the implications of "interpreting" the Bible. From Evolution: "What About God?"
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Scopes Trial
Archival footage reassembled in 1960 tells the story of the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925. John T. Scopes of Tennessee was arrested, tried, and convicted for teaching evolution to his science class.
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Evolving Ideas: Why Is Evolution Controversial Anyway?
In this video for high school students, scientists, college students, and clergy explore the relationship between personal faith and a scientific understanding of evolution.
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Teaching Evolution Case Studies: Dealing with Controversy
This video for teachers explores how controversy may arise in teaching evolution in the public school classroom.
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Evolving Ideas: Who Was Charles Darwin?
This video for high school students highlights Charles Darwin's personal struggle to bring to light his theory of evolution through natural selection.
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The Age of Darwin
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Darwin and Malthus
In this segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," Charles Darwin grasps the basic principle of natural selection and the struggle for existence.
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The Age of Darwin
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Georges Cuvier
In this segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," Darwin considers extinction and speciation.
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Science as Inquiry
This video segment from Evolution: "Why Sex?" shows biologist Marion Petrie's experimental research on sexual selection in peacocks.
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Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
Silent animation created for Evolution: "The Evolutionary Arms Race" illustrates the progression of antibiotic resistance.
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Why Evolution Matters
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Evolving Ideas: Why Does Evolution Matter Now?
In this video for high school students, an exploration of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the Russian prison system highlights one reason it is important to understand evolution.
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Biological Invaders
This segment from Evolution: "Extinction!" shows the impact of invasive species on native ecosystems.
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Cholera: Domesticating Disease
This segment from Evolution: "The Evolutionary Arms Race" features biologist Paul Ewald, who studies virulence of disease organisms and how we can use that research as a powerful tool for medicine.
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Why Evolution Matters
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Hygiene Hypothesis
Dr. Erika von Mutius studies the relationship between early childhood exposure to microbes and the development of asthma and allergies in this segment from Evolution: "The Evolutionary Arms Race."
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Double Immunity
Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute discovers a 700-year-old mutation that may make a person resistant to HIV infection. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."
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Threat of Tuberculosis
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is escaping its incubator -- the Russian prison system -- at an alarming rate. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."
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Structured Treatment Interruption
Can evolutionary processes work to the advantage of people locked in a struggle with drug-resistant HIV? Video segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea."
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Radiometric Dating
In this video segment from A Science Odyssey: "Origins," scientists explain how Earth's age was determined by radiometric dating.
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HIV Immunity
Although repeatedly exposed to HIV, Steve Crohn's blood cells were never infected. Dr. David Ho investigates in this excerpt from NOVA: "Surviving AIDS."
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