What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution

Join a noted field biologist to survey how the theory of evolution has evolved.

• By This Professor
• 01: What Darwin Knew and Why It Still Matters
• 02: Inheritance: Darwin’s Missing Link
• 03: Genome Mutations: Evolution’s Raw Material
• 04: Gene Flow versus Natural Selection
• 05: Geology and Genes: The Geography of Life
• 06: Genetic Drift: When Evolution Is Random
• 07: Rapid Evolution within Species
• 08: Evolution in the Lab
• 09: The Many Origins of Species
• 10: Cambrian Explosion to Dinosaur Extinction
• 11: Reconstructing the Tree of Life with DNA
• 12: Human Evolution in All Directions
• 13: Evolution Doesn’t Repeat, but It Rhymes
• 14: The Evolution of Extreme Life
• 15: Imperfect Nature: Ad Hoc Body Designs
• 16: The Sterile Worker Paradox
• 17: Coevolution: Peace Accords and Arms Races
• 18: Microbiomes: Evolution with Small Partners
• 19: The Evolution of Brains and Behavior
• 20: The Evolution of Sex and Parenting
• 21: The Evolution of Aging and Death
• 22: Evolutionary Medicine
• 23: Gene Editing and Directed Evolution
• 24: The Future of Human Evolution