A New History of Life

36 Lectures 1The Interconnected Earth 2The Vast Depths of Earth Time 3Fossil Clocks 4Paleontologists as Detectives 5The Shifting Surface of Planet Earth 6Earliest Origins-Formation of the Planet 7Origins of Land, Ocean, and Air 8The Early Chemical Evolution of Life 9Hints of the First Life Forms 10How Life Transformed the Early Earth 11Snowball Earth-Another Crisis 12Metazoans-Life Grows Up 13Incredible Variety-The Cambrian Explosion 14Window to a Lost World-The Burgess Shale 15The Forgotten Fossils in Earth's Story 16Introduction to the Great Mass Extinctions 17The Collapse of Earth's First Eden 18Making the Break for Land 19Getting a Backbone-The Story of Vertebrates 20The Evolution of Jaws 21These Limbs Were Made for Walking? 22Tiktaalik-The Search for a Fishapod 23Carboniferous Giants and Coal 24Amniotes-The Shape of Things to Come 25Permian Extinction-Life's Worst Catastrophe 26Finding the Killer-The Greenhouse Earth 27The Dinosaurs Take Over 28Letting the Dinosaurs Speak-Paleobehavior 29Conquering the Air-The Evolution of Flight 30Monsters of the Deep-Mesozoic Oceans 31The Cretaceous Earth-A Tropical Planet 32The Sky Is Falling-End of the Dinosaurs 33The Collision of North and South America 34The Rise of Mammals and the Last Ice Age 35The Humble Origins of Human Beings 36The Conscious Earth