If you are fortunate enough to teach high school or college biology or evolution, this DVD is for you! Its 10 wonderful chapters (each running about 10 minutes) provide a picture book of evolution, crammed with remarkable images and well-known narrators. Hummingbird Films divides this “book of life” into two sections, Part One: The Basics and Part Two: The Continuing Story. Each chapter can also be accessed separately from the “Chapters” menu.
I offer my own students’ reviews: “The music gave it suspense”; “I liked how more than one scientist gave examples of evolution by natural selection.” The graphics are memorable, especially the use of the human arm as a visual timeline for evolution.
Chapter 1 invites the student to contemplate an age-old question, “What Is Evolution?” Chapter 2, “Who Was Charles Darwin?”, rewinds the development of Charles Darwin’s thought. My students were tickled that the originator of the theory...