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Attenborough’s “Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life” on BBC1

ok. sorry i was probably being stupid again...just something that i've wondered about before.

i will watch it later on. cheers. :)
 
Wonderful programme - beautiful images and, as ever, David Attenborough was an engaging, interesting and knowledgable presenter.

I also loved the little insights into his past as a young man and student :)

And the 'conclusion'. as it were, that humans are part of the earth and of life on it rather than that we 'own' it or are better than it made me feel very humble
 
yes i loved the show.
especially the late part where it illustrates the tree of life in motion.
:)

<3 David Attenborough
 
I am a big Darwin fan (should study more really) and David Attenborough is one of my favourite human beings. The whole programme had me captivated from start to finish and agree that 'the tree of life in motion' was just breathtaking.

Watched it on iPlayer last night and will have to get this on DVD to add to my David Attenborough which is a LONG way from being completed.

Next stop (next weekend) the Natural History Museum to see the Darwin’s Big Idea exhibition. Gotta be worth the £8.80 each to see this one I reckon!!
 
November said:
Attenboroughs a top bloke and a fine memeber of the species, but I bet I could have him in a fight. :D
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The one bit I did sort of laugh at was when he walked along a leafy lane that Darwin walked, and was talking about finches and stuff. As the shot came to and end, he was looking his age and gasping for breath as he wheezed out a line about "survival of the fittest".
 
The Arctic

Anyone watching tonight's programme on BBC1 about the artic. It's absolutley brilliant. So many magnicent animals.
 
November said:
Attenboroughs a top bloke and a fine memeber of the species, but I bet I could have him in a fight. :D

note to self: Must watch this.
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One of those individuals who will be irreplacable when he shuffles off the mortal coil :-(,no doubt some pretty boy/girl with all the personality of a jelly will replace him.
 
Gingerman said:
One of those individuals who will be irreplacable when he shuffles off the mortal coil :-(,no doubt some pretty boy/girl with all the personality of a jelly will replace him.
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Come the sad day, I hope Charlotte Uhlenbroek replaces him. She's an academic, and very good looking, and there's nothing wrong with that, after all the young Attenborough was a dashing and handsome man. Still is, according to my mum.
 
Would have been nice if he'd started at the beginning with the creation of water and how the first single cell entities came into being - his exposition rather lost lustre by the absence of foundation.
 
London_Calling said:
Would have been nice if he'd started at the beginning with the creation of water and how the first single cell entities came into being - his exposition rather lost lustre by the absence of foundation.
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you want some of his classic stuff


this was the short intro life on earth and the living planet are what you want

Broadcast 16 January 1979, the first episode begins in the South American rainforest, whose rich variety of life forms is used to illustrate the sheer number of different species. Since many are dependent on others for food or means of reproduction, David Attenborough argues that they couldn't all have appeared at once. He sets out to discover which came first, and the reasons for such diversity. He starts by explaining the theories of Charles Darwin and the process of natural selection, using the giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands (where Darwin voyaged on HMS Beagle) as an example. Fossils provide evidence of the earliest life, and Attenborough travels a vertical mile into the Grand Canyon in search of them. By the time he reaches the Colorado River bed, the geological strata are 2,000 million years old — yet there are no fossils. However, the "right rocks" are found on the shores of Lake Superior in Canada, where wafer-thin slices of flint, called chert, reveal filaments of primitive algae. Also, the micro-organisms that flourish at Yellowstone Park in Wyoming appear to be identical to the Earth's oldest fossils. The evolution of single-celled creatures, from simple cyanophytes to more complex ciliates, and then from multi-celled sponges and jellyfish to the many variations of coral and its associated polyps, is discussed in detail. The fossilised remains of jellyfish are shown within the Flinders Ranges of Australia, and are estimated to be 650 million years old.
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London_Calling said:
Would have been nice if he'd started at the beginning with the creation of water and how the first single cell entities came into being - his exposition rather lost lustre by the absence of foundation.
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evolution/natural selection doesn't cover the actual origin of life though. That's a seperate area of study.
 
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