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Icons of evolution / ColdWater Media videorecording

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Palmer Lake, CO : ColdWater Media, ©2002.Description: 1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0972043314
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH362
Contents:
Controversy in Burlington -- Scopes monkey trial -- National attention -- Haeckel's embryos -- Darwin's finches -- 4-winged fruit fly -- Bacterial resistance -- Homology -- Cambrian explosion -- Chengjiang fossils -- Back to Burlington -- Teaching the controversy.
Production credits:
  • Executive producer: Jim Fitzgerald ; producer: Bryan Boorujy ; directors: Jim Fitzgerald, Bryan Boorujy.
Narrator: Gregory Eagles.Summary: Shows how high school biology teacher Roger DeHart of the Burlington-Edison High School (Burlington, Wash.) was instructed to teach evolution using textbooks he believed to be inaccurate. Discusses some of evolution's icons: Haeckel's embryonic drawings, finches on the Galapagos Islands with different size beaks, the four-winged fruit fly, antibiotic resistant bacteria and Darwin's tree of life.
Item type: Audiovisual Item
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library Audio-Visuals Audio-Visual RNM52 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AV104 Available

Subtitle on container: The growing scientific controversy over Darwin.
Bonus features: 10 questions to ask your biology teacher; Experts answer frequently asked questions about evolution; Recommended web resources; Recommended book resources; Chapter selection.

Controversy in Burlington --
Scopes monkey trial --
National attention --
Haeckel's embryos --
Darwin's finches --
4-winged fruit fly --
Bacterial resistance --
Homology --
Cambrian explosion --
Chengjiang fossils --
Back to Burlington --
Teaching the controversy.

Executive producer: Jim Fitzgerald ; producer: Bryan Boorujy ; directors: Jim Fitzgerald, Bryan Boorujy.

Narrator: Gregory Eagles.

Shows how high school biology teacher Roger DeHart of the Burlington-Edison High School (Burlington, Wash.) was instructed to teach evolution using textbooks he believed to be inaccurate. Discusses some of evolution's icons: Haeckel's embryonic drawings, finches on the Galapagos Islands with different size beaks, the four-winged fruit fly, antibiotic resistant bacteria and Darwin's tree of life.