Directed by The Great Courses

Scott Solomon

Chart the deep insights and remarkable conclusions Charles Darwin's ideas on natural selection inspired. These 24 fascinating episodes cover 160 years of non-stop scientific advances and their relationship to Darwin's groundbreaking theory. Among them: the discovery of the rules of heredity, the identification of DNA, the recognition of mass extinctions, and the power to manipulate genes

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

What Darwin Knew and Why It Still Matters

Episode 2

Inheritance: Darwin's Missing Link

Episode 3

Genome Mutations: Evolution's Raw Material

Episode 4

Gene Flow versus Natural Selection

Episode 5

Geology and Genes: The Geography of Life

Episode 6

Genetic Drift: When Evolution Is Random

Episode 7

Rapid Evolution within Species

Episode 8

Evolution in the Lab

Episode 9

The Many Origins of Species

Episode 10

Cambrian Explosion to Dinosaur Extinction

Episode 11

Reconstructing the Tree of Life with DNA

Episode 12

Human Evolution in All Directions

Episode 13

Evolution Doesn't Repeat, but It Rhymes

Episode 14

The Evolution of Extreme Life

Episode 15

Imperfect Nature: Ad Hoc Body Designs

Episode 16

The Sterile Worker Paradox

Episode 17

Coevolution: Peace Accords and Arms Races

Episode 18

Microbiomes: Evolution with Small Partners

Episode 19

The Evolution of Brains and Behavior

Episode 20

The Evolution of Sex and Parenting

Episode 21

The Evolution of Aging and Death

Episode 22

Evolutionary Medicine

Episode 23

Gene Editing and Directed Evolution

Episode 24

The Future of Human Evolution