What Darwin Didn't Know : : the Modern Science of Evolution

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24 lectures (30 min. each).
Course No. 1530.
disc 1. What Darwin knew and why it still matters -- Inheritance: Darwin's missing link -- Genome mutations: evolution's raw material -- Gene flow versus natural selection -- Geology and Genes: The geography of life -- Genetic drift: when evolution is random -- disc 2. Rapid evolution within species -- Evolution in the lab -- The many origins of species -- Cambrian explosion to dinosaur extinction -- Reconstructing the tree of life with DNA -- Human evolution in all directions -- disc 3. Evolution doesn't repeat, but it rhymes -- The evolution of extreme life -- Imperfect nature: ad hoc body designs -- The sterile worker paradox -- Coevolution: peace accords and arms races -- Microbiomes: evolution with small partners -- disc 4. The evolution of brains and behavior -- The evolution of sex and parenting -- The evolution of aging and death -- Evolutionary medicine -- Gene editing and directed evolution -- The future of human evolution.
Taught by Professor Scott Solomon, Rice University.
DVD video, Dolby digital, NTSC.

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