Disc 1. Macroevolution and major transitions
Paleontology and geologic time
Single, celled life: prokaryotes to eukaryotes
Metazoans: the earliest multicellular animals
The development of skeletons
Disc 2. Colonization of the land
Origins of insects and of powered flight
Seed plants and the first forests
From fish to 4-limbed animals
The egg came first: early reptile evolution
The origins and successes of the dinosaurs.
Disc 3. Marine and flying reptiles
Birds: the dinosaurs among us
The first flowers and pollinator coevolution
Egg to placenta: early mammal evolution
From land to sea: the evolution of whales
Moving on up: the first primates.
Disc 4. Apes: swinging down from the trees
From 4 legs to 2: the hominin radiation
First humans: toolmakers and hunter, gatherers
From homo to sapiens: talking and thinking
Our accelerating evolution
Reflections on major transitions.