The Shape Of Life tells the gripping and magnificent tale of the beginnings of all animal life. Using innovative camera techniques to capture rarely seen creatures and breathtaking computer animation to reveal stunning detail, this digital high definition series tells the stories of the revolutionary findings and scientific breakthroughs in biology, genetics and paleontology that are rewriting the book of life. The series celebrates the splendors and struggles of evolution, unveiling eight biological designs that are the underpinnings of nearly all animal life.
This review is from: The Shape of Life: The Complete Journey (DVD)
I use this series while teaching high-school biology to my son in home-school. The videos make the subject come alive in ways that no textbook can -- in fact, for many topics, I use the videos as primary source of information. The price may seem steep, but you're buying a very polished product with up-to-date information and current discoveries (as of around 2000).
A word of warning to those who want to teach the topic from a creationist perspective: The evidence for evolution and adaptation that the videos present is so persuasive that if you watch these videos, you may struggle to maintain that perspective.
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This review is from: The Shape of Life: The Complete Journey (DVD)
I love these DVDs. They're informative, interesting, and give you an inside look at every episode's stars, up close and personal. It's narrated, but it also has interviews from specialists and researchers around the world. In some episodes, you get to accompany them on dives or testing and you certainly get to see many species of life that ordinarily would be lumped in a group and never picked out as special for any one definitive reason.
I watch these over and over again, they're just awesome!
Good for marine life lovers, good for 'testing the subject' to see if you might like future schooling on it, good for -some- scholastic review and definitely good to have playing in the background while you work from home or do chores.
These are or should be available at your local library, too, so check one out if you're still not sure!
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This review is from: The Shape of Life: The Complete Journey (DVD)
The Shape of Life video series does an excellent job of going through the phyla of animals. The sponge episode is a little slow but the rest of the series has great footage of the animals and provides both evolutionary context as well as current research. My high school students are really enjoying them.
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