Introduction to paleontology / Professor Stuart Sutherland.

Speaker
Sutherland, Stuart (Professor) [Browse]
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

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    Series
    • Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology [More in this series]
    • Great courses. Science & mathematics (Biology)
    Medium/​Support
    DVD 4 3/4 in. rda
    Summary note
    Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth.
    Notes
    • Course no. 1657.
    • Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: approx. 30 min.
    • Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) in course guidebook.
    System details
    DVD.
    Source of description
    Title from disc surface.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Lecturer: Professor Stuart Sutherland, The University of British Columbia.
    Language note
    In English; closed-captioned.
    Contents
    • Disc 1. History on a Geological Scale ; Life Cast in Ancient Stone ; Tools of the Paleontological Trade ; How Do You Fossilize Behavior? ; Taxonomy: The Order of Life ; Minerals and the Evolving Earth
    • Disc 2. Fossil Timekeepers ; Our Vast Troves of Microfossils ; Ocean Fire and the Origin of Life ; The Ancient Roots of Biodiversity ; Arthropod Rule on Planet Earth
    • Disc 3. Devonian Death and the Spread of Forests ; Life's Greatest Crisis: The Permian ; Life's Slow Recovery after the Permian ; Dinosaur Interpretations and Spinosaurus ; Whales: Throwing Away Legs for the Sea ; Insects, Plants, and the Rise of Flower Power
    • Disc 4. The Not-So-Humble Story of Grass ; Australia's Megafauna: Komodo Dragons ; Mammoths, Mastodons, and the Quest to Clone ; The Little People of Flores ; The Neanderthal Among Us ; Paleontology and the Future of Earth.
    Other title(s)
    Introduction to paleontology, course guidebook.
    ISBN
    • 9781629973364
    • 162997336X
    • 9781501955594
    • 1501955594
    Publisher no.
    • ID1657A-01
    • PD1657A
    • PB1657A
    OCLC
    965448867
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