DVD PBS Evolution: Great Transformations (2001)

PBS Evolution: Great Transformations (2001)

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From the development of the four-limbed body plan, the journey of animal life from water to land and the emergence of humans, Great Transformations focuses focuses on the evolutionary changes that triggered the earth's incredible diversity.

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6:50	Pakistan, 1978: Philip Gingerich discovers whale fossil with inner ear.	9:20	Sahara Desert 40 million years ago, Valley of the Whales: Basilosaurus had leg bones	13:10	Sinonyx
13:50	Pakicetus	14:00	Ambulocetus	14:05	Rodhocetus
14:10	Durodon	15:00	Frank Fish, West Chester University: Killer Whale swims by undulating their spine up and down	18:30	Neil Shubin, University of Chicago, and Ted Daeschler at Central Pennsylvania Devonian rocks
21:00	Tetrapod shoulder bone	21:20	Jenny Clack, University of Cambridge in Greenland	22:50	Acanthostega forelimb with fingers
34:00	Mike Levine, University of California, Berkeley studies fruit flies	35:30	William Bateson: animal structure has repeating segments	36:00	Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin-Madison
36:50	Matthew Scott, Stanford University	38:05	Ed Lewis, Caltech: each fly segment directed by a single gene	39:30	Mike Levine and Bill McGinnis, University of California, San Diego: visualization of Antennapedia gene in fruit flies
43:20	Walter Gehring, University of Basel: Eyeless gene from mouse can induce compound eyes in fruit flies	48:00	Don Johanson, Arizona State University	48:50	Liza Shapiro, University of Texas: lemur's flexible spine allows diverse movement:
51:20	Verreaux's Sifaka leaps	53:20	Chimpanzee knuckle-walking

6:50 whale fossil with inner ear.	9:20 Basilosaurus	13:10 Sinonyx
13:50 Pakicetus	14:00 Ambulocetus	14:05 Rodhocetus
14:10 Durodon	15:00 Killer Whale	21:00 Tetrapod shoulder bone
22:50 Acanthostega forelimb with fingers	39:30 Antennapedia gene	51:20 Verreaux's Sifaka leaps
53:20 Chimpanzee knuckle-walking


Index	Mar 01, 2006	Peter Chen 2.0