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©2010
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Copyright date on credit frame: 2009; copyright date on container: 2010
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?
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
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Based on the books: Endless forms most beautiful ; and, The making of the fittest / by Sean B. Carroll
Directors, John Rubin, Rushmore Denooyer, Serena Davies, and Sarah Holt ; producers, Matthew Barrett, John Rubin, and Sarah Holt ; writer, John Rubin
Lance Lewman, narrator
Originally produced for the television program on Nova in 2009. Aired December 29, 2009 on PBS
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