Life on Earth
9.1
1979
Documentary
The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.
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- Cast：
- David Attenborough
Episode 13 : The Compulsive Communicators
April. 10,1979
A look for crucial clues that help to explain how and why we have come to dominate life on Earth. He traces back the African origins of humans to nearly three million years ago, and along the way he goes into caves in Southern France where stone-age people created imaginative paintings of ice-age animals. He also travels to Papua New Guinea to find some hunter-gatherers who have never before set eyes on white people
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Episode 11 : The Hunters and Hunted
March. 27,1979
Explore the eternal duel between the hunters and the hunted - one of the driving forces of evolution. As the hunters develop speed and cunning, the prey becomes increasingly fast and wary in order to stay alive. Nowhere is this seen better than on the plains of East Africa
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Episode 10 : Theme and Variations
March. 20,1979
A look at some of the huge variety of mammals. Bats number over a thousand species, many hunt insects, some sip nectar, drink blood, and even catch fish. Contrast those which use sonar with the great whales that sing, the star-nosed mole and the giant anteater, and the potential variations become dramatically clear
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Episode 9 : The Rise of the Mammals
March. 13,1979
A look at the evolution of mammals from reptiles 200 million years ago. This remarkable transition involved the development of mechanisms for regulating body temperature, for allowing the young to develop in the womb and for suckling newborns. Attenborough also explores the South American origins of marsupials and their colonization of Australia
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Episode 8 : Lords of the Air
March. 06,1979
We examine the uses and advantages of birds' unique possession - the feather. Feathers are insulators; they provide the surface of the most perfect aerofoils known - bird's wings; and they play a central role in courtship
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Episode 7 : Victors of the Dry Land
February. 27,1979
A look at the history of reptiles, the first back-boned creatures to solve the problems of living high and dry on the land. Their waterproofed skin and sealed eggs enabled the mighty reptiles to rule the world
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Episode 6 : Invasion of the Land
February. 20,1979
Some 350 million years ago, evolution reached one of its most crucial stages when fish crawled from water onto the land and became amphibians. Today, newts, salamanders, toads and frogs still survive in great quantities, and there is even one species of frog where the male gives birth from its mouth!
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Episode 5 : Conquest of the Waters
February. 13,1979
A look at some of the 30,000 species of fish which exist in populations of billions. They can fly, produce electricity, survive in hot soda lakes or under the Antarctic ice. Some, like the salmon, even migrate across oceans and up waterfalls
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Episode 4 : The Swarming Hordes
February. 06,1979
The role of a few of the millions of insect species, some of which have developed extremely close relationships with plants. Insects pollinate flowers and in some cases neither flower nor insect can survive without the other.
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Episode 3 : The First Forests
January. 30,1979
Over 400 million years ago, tiny plants began to invade the land, followed by the first animals - the ancestors of scorpions, millipedes and insects
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Episode 2 : Building Bodies
January. 23,1979
This episode explores the various sea-living invertebrates, form the shores of Morocco to Delaware Bay.
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Episode 1 : The Infinite Variety
January. 16,1979
This episode explores the variety of nature as a whole, from the South American rainforest's to the shores of Australia.
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