纪录片讲述1895年,当达尔文在物种起源中初次假设进化论的故事。进化论中-物竞天择,适者生存这一理论已经被科学以及公众认可,但是在一次暴风骤雨般的激烈辩论中,这个理论被一些宗教人士所否认,大众批评他们陈词冗长且缺少证据,大家都相信达尔文是一个诚实的科学家.达尔文起初早就预料到,这个理论会有许多疑难漏洞,但是他把这一切交给了我们后一代人,让我们来补充证明他的观点是正确的,这也是150年来科学家们都在苦苦探索的...两个小时的片长，从达尔文101到基因工程新发现，一般人需要了解的东西都包括到了。内容非常充实，提到的要点很多，基因怎么工作啦，鱼怎么爬上岸啦，大脑怎么进化出来啦，其实很庞杂。因为影片的逻辑非常清晰，给人感觉干净利落，一点都不乱，看完舒服极了。拍到的动物也很可爱。前面50多分钟是进化论常识，包括达尔文生平.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 alone. What explains this explosion of living creatures-1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million more to go? The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea of natural selection, which he showed could help explain the gradual development of life on earth. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? And how did we evolve? On Charles Darwin's 2009 bicentennial, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, NOVA reveals answers to the riddles that Darwin couldn't explain. Stunning breakthroughs in a brand new science-nicknamed evo devo -are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's great mysteries, the development of an embryo. To explore this exciting new idea, NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the Cambrian explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today. Here scientists are finally beginning to crack nature's biggest secrets at the genetic level. And, as NOVA shows in this absorbing detective story, the results are confirming the brilliance of Darwin's insights while exposing clues to life's breathtaking diversity in ways he could scarcely have imagined.