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Uses photography and computer animation to explore evolution through natural selection. Examines different aspects of natural selection, including genes, results of environmental pressure, best-adapted individuals, and the passing of genes to future generations. Discusses divergent, convergent, and parallel evolution, fossil dating methods, genetic drift, bottleneck, and founder effect

Important concepts and terminology discussed in the video include: speciation, climate change, plate tectonics, evolution, adaptive radiation, and extinction. -- publisher's web site

Concepts and terminology conveyed in this video include: Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin, evolution, variation, mutation, natural selection, adaptive radiation, competition, survival, and population genetics. -- publisher's web site

Important Concepts and terminology conveyed in this video include: fossils, homologous structures, embryology, radioactive dating, chemical evidence, and evolutionary patterns. -- publisher's web site

Important concepts and terminology discussed in the video include: Big Bang Theory, atmosphere, evolve, prokaryote, eukaryote, photosynthesis, and multicellular organisms. -- publisher's web site

Why is science so obsessed with the purity of our origins? Can it affect the fate of our species? In a sobering look at our place in the natural order, leading evolutionists risk a glimpse into the future of the human being

Through cutting edge technology and DNA testing, scientists can now for the first time trace the beginnings and the migration of the human race and see the pattern of where, when, how, and from who the human race developed. Explores the patterns of migration, the reasons for migration, and the ways humans have adapted to their environment to ensure their survival

Discusses the theories of Charles Darwin, who tried to explain how variations within a species are preserved or rejected, and coined the phrase "natural selection"

Darwinism - one of the most profound scientific theories to impact human-kind, is explained with this basic introduction to the subject of evolution. Narrated by Charles Attenborough, and using outstanding nature photography, the thesis of each chapter of Darwin's "Origin Of the Species" is clearly outlined

Viewers will learn how characteristics are transfered from one generation to the next through Gregor Mendel's experiments with the pea plant. Includes a discussion of dominant and recessive factors and what the Hardy-Weinberg law proves