The Great Courses - What Darwin Didnt Know: The Modern Science of Evolution - Scott Solomon, PhD

PhD, Scott Solomon

Category: Education

Narrator: PhD

Tags: Education, Science, Documentary

Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins Release date: 01-11-19, Writing the final pages of his masterpiece The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin looked ahead to the work yet to be done on his groundbreaking theory of evolution by natural selection. In the distant future, he predicted, I see open fields for far more important researches., How right he was. In the more than a century and a half since Origin was published in 1859, evolution has emerged as the fundamental concept in all of biology, explaining Earths endlessly diverse organisms while spawning new disciplines such as genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary medicine. The tremendous progress in the fields that emerged from his original theories would have astounded even Darwin, who did not live to see developments such as:, The discovery of the rules of heredity; The identification of DNA as the carrier of genetic information; Fossil discoveries that fill major evolutionary gaps and offer new insights; The recognition of multiple mas