Evolution Box Set [VHS]

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	Artist(s):	Evolution
	Video by:	Wgbh / Pbs
	Sales Rank:	290111

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Recording label: Wgbh / Pbs
EAN: 0783421332935
Binding: VHS Tape
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 2001-10-23
Universal product code (UPC): 783421332935
Number of discs: 7
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

Description
A journey into where we’re from and where we’re going.

Evolution is happening all around you--in your body, your backyard, your local hospital, and in the products that make it to your grocery store shelves. Perhaps no other scientific theory has as far reaching an effect on our daily lives as evolution, yet it is one of the most overlooked and misunderstood principles of life. Driven by two simple mechanisms, variation and natural selection, evolution is the process that helps determine who lives, who dies, and who gets the opportunity to pass on traits to the next generation, and the next, and the next ...

Evolution, a groundbreaking 7-part, 8-hour series, travels around the world to examine evolutionary science and the profound effect it has on society and culture. From the genius and torment of Darwin to the vast changes that spawned the tree of life and from the role of mass extinction in the survival of species to the power of sex to drive evolutionary change, Evolution explores the emergence of consciousness, the success of humans and the perceived conflict between science and religion in understanding human life. Evolution is fascinating and far-reaching in scope.

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The long, long story of evolution is told very well in this extensive eight-hour series originally shown on PBS. The production begins with a dramatization of the struggles of Charles Darwin in a two-hour film aptly titled "Darwin's Dangerous Idea." Scenes of actors portraying Darwin and his contemporaries are supplemented by interviews with experts such as Stephen Jay Gould. In further installments, various topics related to evolution, such as major transformations of species, the intellectual development of humans, the phenomenon of animal extinction, and even the organized opposition to evolutionary theory by religious fundamentalists, are discussed with considerable depth. Interview segments with scholars (and their opponents) are accompanied by extraordinary visuals, including some computer-generated sequences (such as one illustrating how whales left land and evolved in the oceans) that are dazzling. This series, which is narrated by actor Liam Neeson, is a remarkably intelligent and entertaining approach to a fascinating topic. --Robert J. McNamara

Running time: 420 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)