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Title:
What Darwin never knew [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
[Arlington, Va.?] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2010.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781608830985
Abstract:
The source of the earth's great variety of animals was a scientific mystery until Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection. Nova presents breakthroughs in a new science nicknamed "evo devo" that are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's mysteries, the development of embryos.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
Documentary.
Based on the books: Endless forms most beautiful ; and, The making of the fittest / by Sean B. Carroll.
Originally produced for the television program on Nova in 2009.
Performers:
Lance Lewman, narrator.
Contents:
Unanswered questions -- The Galapagos -- Descent with modification -- Natural selection -- The magic of DNA -- 23,000 genes -- Fruit flies -- Gene switches -- A transitional form -- From fins to limbs -- The hand -- Our brains -- What makes us human?
Technical Details:
Widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Closed-captioned; described for the visually impaired.
Added Uniform Title:
Nova (Television program)
Audience:
Not rated.
