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The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory

30 minutes 56 seconds

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Multi-sailed ship on the ocean as seen from above. Caption: Darwin jumped at the chance to sail around the world

British naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both set out on epic adventures to study various species and their development. They gathered evidence on the variation among individual members of a species, the relationships among species, and the patterns of geographic distribution across many species. Based on such evidence, they independently came to the same revolutionary conclusions: species change over time by means of natural selection, and species descend from other species.

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Runtime: 30 minutes 56 seconds

Multi-sailed ship on the ocean as seen from above. Caption: Darwin jumped at the chance to sail around the world
The Origin of Species
Episode 1
30 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Graphic of island with birds that are similar except for coloring. Caption: They had become distinct species.
The Origin of Species
Episode 2
15 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Graphic of four islands close to each other. Each island has lizards on it. Caption: evolved independently on each island.
The Origin of Species
Episode 3
17 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12

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    Jodine T. (Olathe, KS)
    December 10th, 2014 at 01:02 PM

    This video was very clear and worked well for my class. ~Trout, KSD