nature

BBC narrator, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how Chaos Theory has slowly changed the paradigm in science and may answer the question that mankind has asked for millennia? This one is most excellent. (59 min, 6 segments)

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)

From about 250 Ma to 150 Ma, there were likely multiple global catastrophic events that changed the dominant life forms, mammals being the latest. (44 min)

This episode follows our ancestors from the shallow saltwater seas to the freshwater rivers, then discusses the colonization of land. Mainly Devonian and Carboniferous periods. (44 min)

The currents which circle the South Pacific support huge shoals and an incredible variety of life, but much of the center is an ocean desert. (55 min)

This film traces the great river Ganges through North India and explores the colourful natural history of the Gangetic Plains. (48 min, 5 segments)