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HHMI: Click & Learn
HHMI: Click & Learn
Explore scientific discoveries alongside their discoverers. This educational biography of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace tells the story of two independent discoveries of the natural origin of species. Traverse the epic voyages and revolutionary insights of two brave young British naturalists as they change science forever.
The Galápagos finches remain one of our world’s greatest examples of adaptive radiation. Watch as evolutionary biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant detail their 40-year project to painstakingly document the evolution of these famous finches. Their pioneering studies have revealed clues as to how 13 distinct finch species arose from a single ancestral population that migrated to the islands 2 million to 3 million years ago.
This video was produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. HHMI.org. It gives an excellent presentation of recent work done by H. E. Hoekstra and W. Nachman on the evolution of fur color of the rock pocket mouse on lava flows in the American southwest. I am posting it here because of YouTube's superior streaming technology, and to make it more easily accessible for my students at Fullerton College.
**A huge shout-out to David Knuffke, Deer Park High School, NY for his willingness to share his material as I develop this course! Most of this stems from his work. #bettertogether**
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