Bibliograph

100 greatest discoveries, Michael F. Fountain, producer and director ; Science Channel ; Thinkfilm ; a Discovery Channel production

Type

Label

100 greatest discoveries, Michael F. Fountain, producer and director ; Science Channel ; Thinkfilm ; a Discovery Channel production

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

100 greatest discoveries

Medium

videorecording : DVD

Responsibility statement

Michael F. Fountain, producer and director ; Science Channel ; Thinkfilm ; a Discovery Channel production

Runtime

Summary

This program presents 10 milestones that have helped to tell life's story: Walter Alvarez's K-T asteroid theory of dinosaur extinction; the first identification of dinosaur fossils; Stanley Miller's simulation of the early atmosphere, leading to organic compound formation; Robert Ballard's discovery of hydrothermal vent ecosystems; Charles Walcott's analysis of the Burgess Shale; the Linnaean classification system; Darwin's theory of natural selection; Donald Johanson's "Lucy"; Mary Leaky's Laetoli footprints; and Michel Brunet's Toumai skull

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

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