Archive for January 25th, 2008
A video documenting 527 million years of evolution
Seems like to today is turning into the film Fridays that I always looked forward to early on in my education. You probably deserve a break from this week’s blogging. This video that I’ll be sharing with you has many flaws, but it is a creative way to visualize the evolutionary processes. I don’t particularly appreciate how little to no effort was made to show the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event nor the dearth of mammalian evolution, instead they literally fast forwarded millions of years of evolution to show an ape walking bipedally in the trees… which is a somewhat dangerous interpretation.
Anyways, its flawed but it is entertaining, especially since I brought up limb evolution during the Devonian. The video also gets plus points because it plays a favorite Nine Inch Nails song of mine,
Zimmer & Shubin on Limb Evolution
If you read the overview on limb evolution that I wrote yesterday, I think you maybe interested in watching this 51 minute conversation between Carl Zimmer and Neil Shubin that the Panda’s Thumb pointed too.
