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What Darwin Never Knew
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What Darwin Never Knew

Dec 29, 2009
2h 0m
★ 9.0

One hundred and fifty years later, scientists decode nature's greatest mysteries

Overview

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures—1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin brought forth his revolutionary idea of natural selection. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? To what degree do different animals rely on the same genetic toolkit? And how did we evolve?

Genres

Documentary
History

Production Companies

NOVA

Cast

Karl Steudel

Karl Steudel

Jerry Chu

Jerry Chu

Kandace Cummings

Kandace Cummings

Ellen Becker Gray

Ellen Becker Gray

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