Boarding everyone onto the Magic School Bus for a class trip back to prehistoric times when a student requests more information for his family tree, Ms. Frizzle hosts a special tour through the evolution of cells, mammals, and early humans.

Describes evolution and the history of the study of evolution.

This extraordinary true story of LUCA, our Last Universal Common Ancestor, the tiny organism that every unique life-form on Earth can be traced back to, breaks down scientific concepts for young readers.

Explains the theory of evolution by natural selection through the story of how land and marine iguana species diverged in the Galapagos Islands.

It has taken billions of years for Earth to become the planet it is today. When Planet Earth Was New looks back to the very beginning, using a poetic approach grounded in scientific fact to give an overview of how the planet has changed over time: from hot lava to the formation of oceans to the evolution of living things in water and on land. The book also includes the relatively recent evolution of humans - who are just a tiny speck in the sweep...

An in-depth examination of the dramatic 1925 "Monkey Trial," which pitted science against religion as a teacher fought to teach his students about evolution, shows how this trial still reverberates a hundred years later.