Learning on ScreenWhalevolution
- Synopsis
- Animation. This ten minute film shows the evolution of the sperm whale from the amphibious Pakicetus to its present form. After depicting six distinct points in evolutionary history, the film maker, a UK artist Jordan Collver, morphed his still illustrations into one another, incrementally, over ten minutes. The resulting animation emphasises that a single strand of evolutionary history is not characterised by a series of distinct species, but rather, as Charles Darwin put it, an ‘infinitude of connecting links’.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Subjects
- Natural history
- Keywords
- evolution; natural selection; whales
Online availability
- URI
- https://aeon.co/videos/watch-as-the-whale-becomes-itself-slowly-slowly-from-land-to-sea-through-deep-time
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed
Credits
- Director
- Jordan Collver
Distributor
- Name
Aeon Video
- Web
- https://aeon.co/ External site opens in new window
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