Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

What Darwin never knew / a Nova/WGBH production ; produced by Matthew Barrett, John Rubin, and Sarah Holt ; written by John Rubin ; directed by John Rubin, Rushmore Denooyer, Serena Davies, and Sarah Holt.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital video

DVD

Summary:

The source of the earth's great variety of animals was a scientific mystery until Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection. Nova presents breakthroughs in a new science nicknamed "evo devo" that are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's mysteries, the development of embryos.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

WGBY DVD Collection

Subjects:

Carroll, Sean B. -- Television adaptations.

Evolution (Biology)

Developmental biology.

Science television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Television adaptations.

Television programs.

Genre:

Science television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Television adaptations.

Television programs.

Films for hard of hearing people

Nonfiction television programs.

Other Author:

Carroll, Sean B. Endless forms most beautiful.

Carroll, Sean B. Making of the fittest.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Other Title:

Nova (Television program)

Notes:

Copyright date on credit frame: 2009; copyright date on container: 2010.

Documentary.

Based on the books: Endless forms most beautiful ; and, The making of the fittest / by Sean B. Carroll.

Originally produced for the television program on Nova in 2009.

Edited by Martin Sage, Rob Alexander, Tom Perry, Stephanie Munroe, Dick Bartlett, Jim Ohm.

Lance Lewman, narrator.

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.

Closed-captioned; described for the visually impaired.

Contents:

Unanswered questions -- The Galapagos -- Descent with modification -- Natural selection -- The magic of DNA -- 23,000 genes -- Fruit flies -- Gene switches -- A transitional form -- From fins to limbs -- The hand -- Our brains -- What makes us human?

ISBN:

9781608830985

1608830985

Publisher Number:

NOVA6188

Other Number:

515409026

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

261748

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 576.82 What Dar