Additionally, controversial topics (such as the extinction events and human evolution) are handled in the best way possible, receiving a careful, objective treatment that presents all the evidence and allows the listener to come to their own conclusion. There are specific details in this series on single cell evolution, plant evolution, arthropod evolution, geology, fossil dating, etc etc that I just haven't heard before at this level of detail, in such an accessible manner. This is simply the best lecture series I've ever head- Professor Sutherland did an immense amount of preparation for every lecture, filling each and every minute with specific details about the evolution of organisms that simply doesn't exist in this form anywhere else, and with lots of new, recent information included with every lecture. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Why does the Earth have continents? What causes periodic mass extinctions? How did animals move from water to land? What are the oldest fossils? Experience the thrill of scientists searching for answers to questions such as these. By the time you reach the origin of humans in Lecture 35, you’ll appreciate our species in the widest possible context. He devotes most of these lectures to the incredible happenings beneath that piece of paper, including stirring episodes such as Earth’s “snowball” phase, which should have been permanent according to some theories the Cambrian explosion, after which life’s complexity soared in an explosion of genetic diversification and the age of giant insects, where dragonflies had 30-inch wingspans and cockroaches reached 20 inches in length. Professor Sutherland notes that if the story of Earth is compared to the height of the Washington Monument, then all of human history is the thickness of a sheet of paper balanced at the top. At half an hour per lecture, you’ll cover the entire 4.54-billion-year history of Earth in 18 hours, averaging 70,000 years per second! These 36 lectures tell the all-embracing story of life on Earth - its origins, extinctions, and evolutions - in a manner that assumes no background in science. The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists.
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