Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals - Crash Course Biology #21

2012-06-18

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Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things.

References:

Campbell Biology, 9th ed.

CliffsAP Biology, 3rd ed.

Thomas Henry Huxley: http://www.strangescience.net/huxley.htm

Tissues: http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/14-anatomy.htm

Divergence time estimates for the early history of animal phyla...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689654/

Table of Contents:

1) Comparative Anatomy 0:00

2) Locomotion 1:19

3) Heterotophy 1:41

4) Convergent Evolution 2:40

5) Biolography 3:40

6) Tissues 6:00

a) Epithelial Tissue 6:11

b) Connective Tissue 6:33

c) Muscle Tissue 7:01

d) Nerve Tissue 7:14

7) Organs 7:32

8) Organ Systems 7:39

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