Evolution
Studio 360 puts evolution to the test. 2009 is Darwin’s bicentennial, and this week marks 150 years since “On the Origin of Species” was published. Darwin’s descendant, Ruth Padel, writes poems about her famous relative. Spencer Wells gathers DNA around the world to determine where we came from. An amateur paleontologist finds a way to believe in both God and the fossil record. Plus the world premiere of a short science fiction story by Lydia Millet, imagining the downside of messing too much with genes.
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