Major Transitions in Evolution

Join two brilliant and engaging professors on an amazing exploration of evolution's most important moments-the giant leaps that gave rise to nature's boundless diversity.

• By This Professor
• 01: Macroevolution and Major Transitions
• 02: Paleontology and Geologic Time
• 03: Single-Celled Life-Prokaryotes to Eukaryotes
• 04: Metazoans-The Earliest Multicellular Animals
• 05: The Development of Skeletons
• 06: The Rise of Vertebrates
• 07: Colonization of the Land
• 08: Origins of Insects and of Powered Flight
• 09: Seed Plants and the First Forests
• 10: From Fish to 4-Limbed Animals
• 11: The Egg Came First-Early Reptile Evolution
• 12: The Origins and Successes of the Dinosaurs
• 13: Marine and Flying Reptiles
• 14: Birds-The Dinosaurs among Us
• 15: The First Flowers and Pollinator Coevolution
• 16: Egg to Placenta-Early Mammal Evolution
• 17: From Land to Sea-The Evolution of Whales
• 18: Moving on Up-The First Primates
• 19: Apes-Swinging Down from the Trees
• 20: From 4 Legs to 2-The Hominin Radiation
• 21: First Humans-Toolmakers and Hunter-Gatherers
• 22: From Homo to sapiens-Talking and Thinking
• 23: Our Accelerating Evolution
• 24: Reflections on Major Transitions