Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Evolution, by PBS, narrated by Liam Neeson (4-DVD set)
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Price: $99.95
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A boxed set. 4 DVDs of the 8 hour PBS series
narrated by Liam Nielson.
Dramatizes Darwin’s life while explaining the science behind evolution. Includes:
- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
- Interweaves Darwin’s life with current research. Why evolution is more important today than in Darwin’s time.
- Great Transformations
- Important evolutionary changes that triggered the earth’s incredible diversity: the development of the four-limbed body plan; the journey of animal life from water to land; the emergence of humans.
- Extinction!
- 99.9% of all species are now extinct. Why did his happen, and are we causing the next mass extinction?
- The Evolutionary Arms Race
- Survival of the fittest: Explores our own arms race with the microorganisms that threaten our existence.
- Why Sex?
- Investigates the endless variety of sexual expression and why, in evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself.
- The Mind’s Big Bang
- What happened between 100,000-50,000 years ago to trigger a creative, technological, and social explosion?
- What About God?
- Only humans try to explain who they are and how they came to be. Stories of people struggling to balance religion and science.
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