What Darwin Never Knew

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

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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?

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Status: Released
Release date: December 29, 2009
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: NOVA
Cast: Kandace Cummings,Jerry Chu,Karl Steudel,Ellen Becker Gray
Director: Rushmore DeNooyer,Serena Davies,John Rubin,Sarah Holt
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt1540263