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Science and Life: The Evolution of Living Things: 4: Colonisation of the Land

on BBC Television

By Carboniferous times the land was already clothed with tree-ferns, giant horsetails, and many other trees not known today. In these ancient coal forests the descendants of the fishes, the early amphibians, were now colonising the land.
Introduced by Professor W. S. Bullough.
for Schools
First shown in February 1960
Repeated on Thursday at 11.5 a.m.

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Presenter:
Professor W. S. Bullough
Producer:
F. R. Elwell

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