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Evolutionary Perspectives
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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Stephen Jay Gould : Darwin's
Revolution In Thought
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the Actor
Using evolutionary biology, history of science, and social history as his
canvas, Gould paints the fascinating picture of how human biases (philosophical,
cultural, and spiritual) have continued to resist Darwin's theory, inverting it
into its own philosophical opposite. "If there's one thing we desperately
want evolution to be, it's a principle that predicts progress...but it just
isn't so."-- Stephen Jay Gould
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Editorial
ReviewsFrom
the Actor
In setting out to answer his central question "Is Evolution
Progressive?", Dawkins illustrates the human biases that continue to muddle
our understanding of just what evolutionary 'progress' means; from early
Victorian influences, to contemporary scientific texts which uncritically invoke
'evolutionary scales' and notions of 'higher' and 'lower' organisms. In turn,
Dawkins demonstrates the 'human chauvinistic' definition of progress, and why,
if progress is defined from this point of view, it becomes easy to deny any
progressive elements to evolution. In response, Dawkins argues that if we use a
more biologically sensible definition of progress, evolution can indeed be shown
to be progressive in a very important sense.
About
the Actor
Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding
of Science at Oxford University. His books include The Selfish Gene, The Blind
Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, and Climbing Mount Improbable, among others.
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New Chimpanzees (1995)
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Color, Box set, NTSC
Number of tapes: 4
ASIN: 6303231500
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Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice