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How Life Began
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Was life on Earth triggered by a specific event or did it arrive from some distant galaxy? This A&E Special investigates how the planet evolved to support a rich and vibrant menagerie of aquatic, t...
Was life on Earth triggered by a specific event or did it arrive from some distant galaxy? This A&E Special investigates how the planet evolved to support a rich and vibrant menagerie of aquatic, terrestrial, and airborne creatures.
Details
- Creator
- A&E Television Networks, LLC
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2010], c2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (88 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn858441263
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on December 02, 2010.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Mankind's Search for Origins (3:27) -- Competing Hypotheses of Life's Origins (3:32) -- Elements of Life (3:42) -- Organic Compounds and Living Cells (1:42) -- Key Characteristics of Living Things (3:46) -- Principle of Emergence (3:38) -- Life on an Uninhabitable Earth (4:00) -- Oldest Known Fossils (2:43) -- Adaptability of Ancient Bacteria (3:32) -- Invention of the Microscope (3:14) -- Single-Celled Organisms Provide Oxygen for Earth (2:13) -- From Single-Celled to Multi-Celled Organisms (2:19) -- Sexual Reproduction (2:09) -- Cambrian Explosion (2:27) -- Legacy of Reproduction, Natural Selection, and Evolution (4:25) -- Earth: Infected with all Forms of Life (2:55) -- Theory of Spontaneous Generation (8:19) -- Beginning of Life and Charles Darwin (4:02) -- Life Begins in Primordial Soup (5:19) -- Organic Compounds in Outer Space (7:44) -- Where Did Life on Earth Begin (5:52) -- Creation of Synthetic Life (7:50) -- Credits: How Life Began (0:37)