Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology #20

2012-06-11

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Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization.

Table of Contents

1) The Theory of Evolution 1:49

2) Fossils 2:42

3) Homologous Structures 4:36

4) Biogeography 7:02

5) Direct Observation 8:52

References:

http://www.hisl.ent.msu.edu/discussion/Miller_et_al_2006.pdf

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gingeric/PDGwhales/Whales.htm

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_16

http://www.thomsonedu.com/community/russell/Russell_19_401-418%2012.pdf

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/28/science/la-sci-marsupial-20100728

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2555653/pdf/bullwho00311-0137.pdf

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-lizard-evolution.html

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