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The theory of evolution, that means the history of the descent of organisms, is regarded now as a basic, general and suggestive biological theory. The transparency atlas presents current facts and ideas in order to acquaint the student with the most important views and models of evolution. The arrangement of the series is based on a general conception. The order in principle corresponds to the description of three fundamental subjects of evolution: Problem of the self-organisation of bio-systems, the problem of the reconstruction of phylogenesis, and the problem of species variation.

CONTENTS:

• 39 Overhead-Transparencies, size 22 x 28 cm, comprising 90 colour pictures, mostly with several component figures (drawings, diagrams, anatomical pictures, photomicro- and macrographs, nature photographs, life cycles, scenes of landscape, fossils, test data and results). The colour pictures were prepared by university illustrators specialising in this field. The application of a strong, hard-wearing carrier foil warrants great durability.
• Sketch and work-sheets with semi-diagrammatic designs and texts. Teacher may take photocopies from the sheets and use for classroom work and tests.
• Brochure with depictured explanatory comments for the teacher. All in strong plastic file with ring-mechanism.

Stellar, Chemical, and Organic Evolution - The temporal course of evolution: Nomenclature, events and epoches - Origin of the celestial bodies - Origin of the solar system - Landscape in primeval times of the earth - The pre-historical landscape as a chemical cooking pot - Apparatus of MILLER for synthesis of amino acids in simulated primary atmosphere - Simulated polycondensation of amino acids to proteinoids I: Hot lava and amino acids, II: Melting, generation of steam, III: Condensation reaction, IV: Removal of the polymers - Abiogenic production of proteinoid-microspheres - Basic functions of the life of eobionts - Evolutionary stages of metabolism: Primeval mud to protobionts, protobionts to procaryotes, fermenting, breathing, and photosynthesizing procaryotes - Precambrian evidences of life - Precambrian microfossils: Protists from the South African Precambrian, ca. 3 billion years old - Spherical, filiform, umbrella-shaped organisms from the North American Gunflint-formation, and cell filaments from the Australian Bitterspring-formation - The course of evolution of the organisms, diagram.

Development of Procaryotes - The Biological Evolution from the Procaryotes to the Vegetable and Animal Kingdom - Theory of spontaneous generation and realization - Tapestry with a presentation of the Christian Genesis (12th century) - Diagram of the descent and ramification of the five kingdoms of organisms - Possible development of flagellated eucytes to various algae and other life forms - Development of the spore-plants from aquatic to terrestrial forms - Evolutionary lines of terrestrial spore-plants - Hypothetical phylogenetic tree of Deuterostomia - Gastraea theory according to HAECKEL - Evolution of the Chordata: Vertebrata - Simplified scheme of ramifications to show the course of evolution in the vertebrates - Saurians: Ornithischia and Saurischia. Skulls with homologous lower jaw - Phylogenetic relations among saurians - Comparison of numbers of species of the animals - Course of the earth history. Geological times - Earth history. Table of rock formations - Morphological variety of an animal group: Evolution of the Cephalopoda - Cambrian period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Silurian period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Devonian period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Carboniferous period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Permian period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Triassic period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Jurassic period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Cretaceous period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Tertiary period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants - Quaternary period: Scene of landscape with typical animals and plants.

Basis, Mechanisms, and Ways of Evolution of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdom - Courses of evolution exemplified by the evolution of vertebrates - Morphological homologies: Formation of notochord and vertebrae, common structural plan of the vertebrate appendages, evolutionary stages of vertebrate brains, hearts, lungs and excretory organs - Extinct intermediate animals: Ichthyostega and Archaeopteryx - Archaeopteryx, fossil and reconstruction - Living fossils: Horseshoe crab Limulus (Xiphosura) - Important living fossils of invertebrates, vertebrates, and vascular plants - Parallel evolution of the African and South American fauna - Nauplius larvae of various crustacean groups - Embryonic stages of various vertebrate classes - The ancestral development of the horse’s foot - Foot skeleton of even-toed ungulates - Embryos with gill clefts, HAECKEL’S biogenetic law - Pelvis rudiments of a whale - Irregular dewclaw of a horse (atavism) - Biochemical relationship of vertebrate serum proteins - Catastrophe theory of CUVIER, documented by "Scheuchzer’s skeleton" - Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characters) and darvinism (natural selection) - Modification: Curve of modification - Modification: unsuccessful selection in culturing Paramaecium - Mutation : Mutagenous influences and mutability - Mutation: Types of mutation - Selection: Quick selection by preadaptation. Industrial melanism of the peppered moth (Biston betularia) - Selection: Extinction of whole animal groups by extreme selection - Isolation: The continental drift theory - Isolation: Geographic and ecological isolation. Endemism of DARWIN’s finches - Speciation by geographic separation - Adaptive radiation of marsupials and mammals - Forming principles: Perfection, gigantism, hypertely of a lamellicorn beetle, individual and ancestral development of stag’s antlers - Transspecific evolution, diagram - Ontogenic spirals - Evolution of the horse - Phylogenetic tree based on structural relationship of cytochrome C - Evolution of languages from the primeval Indo-European language.

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