Icons of evolution / [print]
ColdWater Media.
- Special edition.
- Palmer Lake, Colorado : ColdWater Media, (c)2002.
- 1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Subtitle on container: The growing scientific controversy over Darwin. Bonus features: 10 questions to ask your biology teacher; Experts answer frequently asked questions about evolution; Recommended web resources; Recommended book resources; Chapter selection.
Controversy in Burlington -- Scopes monkey trial -- National attention -- Haeckel's embryos -- Darwin's finches -- 4-winged fruit fly -- Bacterial resistance -- Homology -- Cambrian explosion -- Chengjiang fossils -- Back to Burlington -- Teaching the controversy.
Executive producer: Jim Fitzgerald ; producer: Bryan Boorujy ; directors: Jim Fitzgerald, Bryan Boorujy. Executive producer: Jim Fitzgerald ; producer: Bryan Boorujy ; directors: Jim Fitzgerald, Bryan Boorujy.
Shows how high school biology teacher Roger DeHart of the Burlington-Edison High School (Burlington, Washington ) was instructed to teach evolution using textbooks he believed to be inaccurate. Discusses some of evolution's icons: Haeckel's embryonic drawings, finches on the Galapagos Islands with different size beaks, the four-winged fruit fly, antibiotic resistant bacteria and Darwin's tree of life.
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DeHart, Roger.
Burlington School District (Burlington, Wash.)
Evolution (Biology)--Study and teaching. Education and state--Washington (State)--Burlington.