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Get ready to take a trip back 3 ½ Billion years to learn about early life on Earth. Evolution: The 3 ½ Billion Year Journey utilizes informative narratives, dynamic graphics, and animations to present the expansive subject area of evolution.

Test your knowledge with scenarios such as: identify the moth coloration preyed upon more frequently; complete various sentences pertaining to heredity; drag each type of natural selection term up to the correct graph; and more.

Topics covered on this program:
Earth's Prehistoric Life; Early Views on Evolution; Charles Darwin; Heredity; Natural Selection; Micro Evolution; Variation; Evolutionary Fitness; Speciation; Fossil Finds; Macro Evolution; and Mass Extinctions.

Presentation
The Presentation portion of this program includes audio-narrated scenes featuring the content from the objectives.

 




Interactive Lessons
Students can work through different activities that directly reinforce the information learned in the Presentation.

Program Objectives

I. Introduction

II. Earth's Prehistoric Life

A. First Organisms

B. Fossilization

III. Earthly Views on Evolution

A. George Cuvier

1. Father of Paleontology

2. Catastrophism

B. Jean Baptiste Lamarck

IV. Charles Darwin

A. Voyage of the HMS Beagle

1. The Galapagos Islands

B. Darwin's Views on Evolution

1. On the Origin of Species

2. Early Thoughts on Natural Selection

V. Heredity

A. Genes as the Basic Unit of Heredity

B. Chromosomes as the Carriers of Genes

1. Genotype and Phenotype

C. Alleles

1. Locus

D. Dominance

VI. Natural Selection

A. Works on Populations

B. English Peppered Moth

C. Forms of Natural Selection

1. Directional Selection

2. Stabilizing Selection

3. Disruptive Selection

VII. Microevolution

A. Definition

B. Genetic Drift

1. Bottleneck Effect

2. Founder Effect

C. Gene Flow

D. Mutation

E. Non-Random Mating

F. Natural Selection

VIII. Variation

A. Quantitative vs Discrete Variation

B. Variation Through Mutation

C. Variation Through Recombination

D. Preservation of Variation

1. Diploidy

2. Balanced Polymorphism

IX. Evolutionary Fitness

X. Specification

A. Allopatric Speciation

B. Adaptive Radiation

C. Gradual vs Punctuated Equilibrium

XI. Fossil Finds

A. Archaeopteryx Lithographia

B. Dating Fossils

1. Index Fossils

2. Radioactive Dating

XII. Macroevolution

A. Preadaptation

B. Homologous Structures

C. Vestigal Organs

D. Comparative Embryology

E. DNA Comparisons

XIII. Mass Extinctions

A. Permian and Cretaceous

B. Continental Drift as a Factor

C. Asteroid Strike as a Factor

XIV. Conclusion

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Institutional Pricing

Hybrid CD-ROM SingleUser, 1 $99.95
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Hybrid CD-ROM LabPack, 5 $240.00
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