# Educational evolution video suggestions - abt 30 min?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 27, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-evolution-video-suggestions-abt-30-min/679868 "2014-01-27T18:01:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-evolution-video-suggestions-abt-30-min/679868/1 "2014-01-27T18:01:16Z")

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A friend of mine teaches high school science, and asked me if I could recommend any films or videos that do a good job of presenting evolution, with a running time of about 30 minutes.

I realized, rather ashamedly, that I don’t know of any, and that I don’t watch many films or videos… but I thought folks here on the Dope might.  
So any suggestions for good educational evolution videos? The running time is a bit of a limitation, but maybe he could run a 60 minute show (I think BBC and PBS/Nature sometimes do good work in that time span) and fast forward through some parts to get to 30 min?  
Thanks in advance! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-evolution-video-suggestions-abt-30-min/679868/2 "2014-01-27T18:13:53Z")

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Crash Course Biology might work. The videos are all about 10 minutes long.

[Natural Selection](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTftyFboC_M&list=SP3EED4C1D684D3ADF&index=14)  
[Speciation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKlKmrbLoU&list=SP3EED4C1D684D3ADF&index=15)  
[Evolutionary Development](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sjwlxQ_6LI&list=SP3EED4C1D684D3ADF&index=17)  
[Evidence for Evolution](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GagfbA2vo&list=SP3EED4C1D684D3ADF&index=20)

This is just a few of the videos; there’s one on population genetics and one on taxonomy, meiosis and mitosis…

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**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-evolution-video-suggestions-abt-30-min/679868/3 "2014-01-28T01:44:44Z")

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I will pass that on, **Inner Stickler** , many thanks!