natural science

This excellent BBC documentary, presented by the lucid Professor Armand Leroi, tells the story of the theory of evolution since Darwin postulated it in 1859 in ‘On the Origin of Species’. (88 min)

This episode is all about primates and how the modern human gained the upper hand in nature’s game of survival. (45 min)

This concluding episode reveals, through time and isolation, how animals and plants on the Galapagos Islands have evolved in the most surprising ways to cope with the profound geological and climatic forces affecting them. (49 min)