A New History of Life

A New History of Life « Series from 2024

Series from 2024

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Genres: Documentary

Could our planet have been seeded with life from elsewhere? How have natural forces conspired to remove most traces of life from the planet? And how has life itself responded with determination to survive and thrive in a multitude of astonishing forms?

Learn about the amazing story of our world—its origins, extinctions, and evolutions—in the 36 lectures of A New History of Life.

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The Interconnected Earth

The Vast Depths of Earth Time

Fossil Clocks

Paleontologists as Detectives

The Shifting Surface of Planet Earth

Earliest Origins-Formation of the Planet

Origins of Land, Ocean, and Air

The Early Chemical Evolution of Life

Hints of the First Life Forms

How Life Transformed the Early Earth

Snowball Earth - Another Crisis

Metazoans - Life Grows Up

Incredible Variety - The Cambrian Explosion

Window to a Lost World - The Burgess Shale

The Forgotten Fossils in Earth’s Story

Introduction to the Great Mass Extinctions

The Collapse of Earth’s First Eden

Making the Break for Land

Getting a Backbone - The Story of Vertebrates

The Evolution of Jaws

These Limbs Were Made for Walking?

Tiktaalik - The Search for a Fishapod

Carboniferous Giants and Coal

Amniotes - The Shape of Things to Come

Permian Extinction - Life's Worst Catastrophe