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A New History of Life
- Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
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The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists.
These 36 lectures tell the all-embracing story of life on Earth - its origins, extinctions, and evolutions - in a manner that assumes no background in science. At half an hour per lecture, you’ll cover the entire 4.54-billion-year history of Earth in 18 hours, averaging 70,000 years per second!
Professor Sutherland notes that if the story of Earth is compared to the height of the Washington Monument, then all of human history is the thickness of a sheet of paper balanced at the top. He devotes most of these lectures to the incredible happenings beneath that piece of paper, including stirring episodes such as Earth’s “snowball” phase, which should have been permanent according to some theories; the Cambrian explosion, after which life’s complexity soared in an explosion of genetic diversification; and the age of giant insects, where dragonflies had 30-inch wingspans and cockroaches reached 20 inches in length. By the time you reach the origin of humans in Lecture 35, you’ll appreciate our species in the widest possible context. Why does the Earth have continents? What causes periodic mass extinctions? How did animals move from water to land? What are the oldest fossils? Experience the thrill of scientists searching for answers to questions such as these.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- B. Bartosh
- 06-17-19
Get the video version
Like evolution itself, this course takes some time to build up steam but becomes pretty impressive when it does. My only caveat is that while I ordinarily prefer the audio versions of Great Courses so that I can listen to them anywhere, this really is a course where you need the visual accompaniment. The professor frequently shows examples of the creatures he is talking about and I felt like I was missing out with just his vague descriptions of them. He is, however, a good storyteller.
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- nicolas
- 05-10-19
Great lecture!
Really wonderfully done. Professor Sutherland is a really great story teller. And that’s ultimately what this is, a story!
The only drawback is that this is a lecture where a lot of the times he is referring to images that he is showing. This isn’t Professor Sutherland‘s fault, this is a video series for the great courses, but just listening to it sometimes can be a little frustrating because you want to see what he is talking about. But again, that’s not no fault of his.
Overall outstanding. Highly recommend
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- Glacierjay
- 07-15-19
Never updated video sountrack for audio
I wanted to like it, but narrator keeps referring to things he's showing in video
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- Anonymous User
- 06-08-19
Good but flawed
This presenter is an excellent teacher. However, the recording was of a class heavy in visual aids which don’t come across so well Iwhen listening. Also he really wimps out on climate change at the end.
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- Brian
- 01-31-20
Improve PDF
Needs more illustrations to match presentation. Insert pictures of objects he is showing in class.
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- New Lush Wallaby
- 06-09-19
A wonderful and very well presented course.
This course is very interesting and easy to follow but I have to say that, after listening to the audio version and very much enjoying it, I immediately subscribed to the video version and watched it all the way through. This course offers much more visual material than most of The Great Courses which I've read or watched and I strongly recommend the video version for this one. That said though, it was great both ways.
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- Clayton
- 04-04-19
Engaging and deep.
Credible and dignified, but lots of passion still gets through. A balanced, truly scientific approach.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-02-19
Sketchy
Very basic, and also quite dated info. It's basically the Walking With... series in a book format and without visuals.
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- Conrad Barski
- 06-19-19
Staggering in both Depth and Breadth
This is simply the best lecture series I've ever head- Professor Sutherland did an immense amount of preparation for every lecture, filling each and every minute with specific details about the evolution of organisms that simply doesn't exist in this form anywhere else, and with lots of new, recent information included with every lecture. There are specific details in this series on single cell evolution, plant evolution, arthropod evolution, geology, fossil dating, etc etc that I just haven't heard before at this level of detail, in such an accessible manner. Additionally, controversial topics (such as the extinction events and human evolution) are handled in the best way possible, receiving a careful, objective treatment that presents all the evidence and allows the listener to come to their own conclusion.
Warning: this lecture series is like the "War and Peace" of evolutionary history, you will be clobbered with lots of detailed information (of the highest quality) if you choose to listen to this series. Also, other reviewers are correct that the lack of video to accompany the lectures is a drawback, but regardless of this limitation it is still so, so good.
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- Ken Mitchell
- 06-05-19
Comprehensive and cohesive
This is the best treatment of the topic I’ve seen. The author doesn’t over-focus on any one group or hypothesis. He does make a compelling story of the biosphere’s history. Well done! The only negative for me was the time sequence skipped about a bit more than I’d prefer.
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- Mick
- 04-24-19
Not appropriate for Audible
"Have a look at this item."
I've bought 30 plus great courses on audible but I've returned this one after the second lecture.
These lectures are heavily dependent on the visuals being shown in the room to explain the points the lecturer is making. he even holds up objects for the audience and talks about them but I've no idea what the object is.
I'm disappointed that the great courses released this as an audiobook as its just not appropriate for the format. I am sure the video of the lectures is great however as it seems a really interesting course.
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- J
- 12-13-19
Reliance on visuals
The lecturer is decent, but relies a lot pn viauals that are not in the supporting information. it detracts a lot from the book.
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- nonono
- 05-07-21
Absolutely loved it!
The professor is like a mixture of prof. Brian Cox and Russel Brand, the lectures were exciting and full of knowledge and interesting facts. I'm a first year geology student, so most of it was new information, but this is definitely the way to make me want to know more. I'd love to listen to more of his lectures.
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- Jean
- 11-25-19
Love this audiobook
I absolutely love this audio book and I am listening to it for the third time. Yes he refers to the diagrams but I don't feel it detracts too much from the talk. The professor who is speaking has a great manner and I don't find myself zoning out as I do with other speakers.
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- michael cook
- 09-16-20
The history of life, what's not to like
Stewart sutherland is an engaging, and eloquent tutor in this history of life on earth. He explains complex ideas and theories, with aplomb, enthusiasm and a sense of Humour. He manages to make, deep time and all the complicated, processes, that bring us to where we are now, interesting and I can't recommend this enough
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- Lucy Moss
- 02-01-23
Absolutely Fascinating
Completely compelling, and delivered with a charming wry humour that elevates what could be a very dull recounting of fossil histories and rock formation to a real narrative.
I really, really enjoyed it and listened twice because there were so many good bits!
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-30-23
Fascinating
I found this a very fascinating and informative audio book. Stuart Sutherland makes this subject easy to grasp. I enjoyed listening to his voice.
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- Richard Tol
- 12-19-22
Audio is not video
This is the audio track of a video lecture. It does not work. Besides, jokes are fine but unfunny ones are not.
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- C. A. Garratt
- 12-13-22
Enlighten
Brilliant enlightening easy to understand , kept me riveted and hungry for more , I’m sad it’s done!
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- Nikki
- 11-21-22
Great, just a shame about the visuals
Really good, interesting content with a good narrator. The only issue is frequent references to visual content not included (obviously!) in the audiobook, nor in the pdf that comes with it. Look at this slide, or this fossil, see that bit there? Well... no! It is a bit annoying. However, it's only once or twice in each lecture, so it doesn't dominate the course. And since he explains what is important about what his students are seeing, I didn't feel I couldn't understand what was happening because I couldn't see it. I still enjoyed the series a lot, and will listen to it again as well.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-09-20
Not appropriate for audio-only
I really wanted to enjoy this, but this lecture was obviously originally presented in video format, and the audio has been taken from it. The lecturer frequently referred to visual aids which made it too frustrating to listen to. I recommend this lecture be taken off Audible and reviewed/edited.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-01-19
Worth while course
I liked the easily understood content. Parts of the presentation required visual examples that limited a small amount of the subject.
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