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Breaking the Wall That Limits Evolution: How Sexual Recombination Accelerates Adaptation
Item# 49383
© 2011
14 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-444-0
Why do most eukaryotes reproduce sexually and not asexually? While most people ascribe this to pleasure, science does not. At least 1.3 billion years before animals developed neurons capable of assess...
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The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey: The Selfish Gene—All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Item# 47363
© 2011
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-452-1
This program examines the “selfish gene” hypothesis, laying out an interconnected tale of Western imperialism, African genocide, and the unusual psyches of the men who developed the theory. Working in...
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Dinosaurs: On the Trail of Prehistory
Item# 44694
© 2011
53 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-126-1
A sensational discovery is made in a German quarry: petrified tracks created by Troodontidae, a beast of great interest to scientists but about which little is known. Paleontologists around the world...
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Are We Still Evolving?
Item# 43944
© 2011
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-008-0
Assume, for the sake of argument, that our species has created everything it needs—all the comfort and protection that technology can provide. Does that mean our biological evolution has come to an en...
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New to Our Collection! How to Build an Ancient Man
Item# 52289
© 2010
50 Min.
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All that remains of "Inuk" are a few tufts of tangled human hair dug out of Greenland's permafrost, yet as scientists rebuild the identity of this 4,000-year-old arctic hunter, they rewrite the histor...
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How Did We Get Here? A History of Evolutionary Science
Item# 43342
© 2010
49 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61733-524-2
The question of human origins, and of the beginning of life itself, is one of the most controversial science has ever wrestled with-and the debates are as divisive today as they were in the 19th centu...
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New to Our Collection! Darwin's Other Island
Item# 52309
© 2009
52 Min.
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Using Charles Darwin’s own diary and field notes as his travel guide, naturalist Armand Leroi charts a course beyond the Galápagos Islands to explore forgotten shores and set our eyes on the very crea...
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New to Our Collection! The Human Family Tree
Item# 52290
© 2009
50 Min.
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Astoria, Queens, New York is the melting pot of melting pots, with a range of skin tones, heights, weights, hair types, and eye shapes, to say nothing of their beliefs, cultures, languages, and trades...
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In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth: Crossroads of Faith and Science
Item# 50123
© 2009
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-830-1
Will the battle between creationism and scientific purism ever be resolved? In search of a more nuanced and illuminating dialogue, this film explores the views of free thinkers around the world who ba...
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The Bodies Left Behind: Life after People
Item# 45426
© 2009
45 Min.
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This program theorizes about what would happen if people disappeared from Earth and how this would play out in Boston and Houston. The fate of embalmed, mummified, and cryogenically frozen bodies is d...
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