Wonders of life [video recording]: where the biggest questions about life may be answered: what is life?, why do we need water?, why does life end?/ Produced by Gideon Bradshaw [and three others]. - [place of publication not identified]: British Broadcasting Corporation, 2014. - 2 disc set: sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Episode 1: Size matters
Episode 2: What is life?
Episode 3: Expanding universe
Episode 4: Home
Episode 5: Web of life

This beautiful and definitive series reveals the 3.7 billion years story of how a few basic ingredients gave birth to the complex and unique phenomenon we call life. Revealing how everything in the universe, from the smallest microbe to the largest cluster of galaxies, is constructed from the same fundamental building blocks and is subject to the same laws of nature.
Wonders of life tells the story of the amazing diversity and adaptability of life through the processes the govern it. Visiting spectacular locations including the flooded Taal Volcano on the Philippine Island of Luzon, the Australia outback and the Borneo rainforests, it uncovers the secrets of life in the most unexpected locations and poses the question: could the conditions for life be repeated elsewhere in the universe?


English


Zoology.
Biology.

QL 45 .W872 2014