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Documentary

Evolution

2001 1 season 7 episodes limited series
66 Pulse
8.2 IMDb
One weekend 8 hours
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Plot

Evolution is a 2001 documentary series by the American broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service and WGBH on evolutionary biology. The spokespeople for the series were Jane Goodall, Kenneth R. Miller and Stephen Jay Gould, Eugenie C. Scott, Arthur Peacocke and Arnold Thomas. The series was narrated by the Irish actor Liam Neeson. The series was accompanied by a book by the popular science writer Carl Zimmer Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea. An extensive website provides teaching resources for each episode's material, including "The Mating Game", further looks at Charles Darwin, and an interactive history of speciation in the invented "pollencreeper" birds.

Credits

Directed by: Alastair Reid

Cast: Liam Neeson, Chris Larkin, Mark Tandy, Jane Cunliffe

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