The_Genius_of_Charles_Darwin《天才查尔斯._达尔文》
简述
传记/人物类纪录片，Channel 4 频道 2008 年出品。
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影片信息
官方网站
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-genius-of-charles-darwin
影片原始规格:
- 中文片名 ：天才查尔斯. 达尔文
- 中文系列名：
- 英文片名 ：The Genius of Charles Darwin
- 英文系列名：
- 电视台 ：Channel 4
- 地区 ：英国
- 语言 ：英语
- 时长 ：约 48 分钟/集（花絮28分钟）
- 版本 ：DVD
- 发行时间 ：2008
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
当这位科学家的代表作《物种起源》150周年诞辰临近时，理查德·道金斯带领我们了解查尔斯·达尔文的生活和工作，以及解释他对其自然选择进化理论的持续意义的看法。
分集介绍
Life Darwin and Everything
In the first part of the series, Richard Dawkins retraces Darwin’s journey as a scientist. He re-examines the rich evidence of the natural world – iguanas on the Galapagos islands, giant fossilised sloths in the Americas and even pigeons back home in England – which opened Darwin’s eyes to the extraordinary truth that all living things must be related and had evolved from a common ancestor.
Darwin knew his espousal of evolution would cause outrage, challenging, as it did, the prevailing religious view of the world and our place in it. But, as Dawkins explains, it was really his theory of natural selection that undermined the notion of a benevolent God who designed all creatures great and small. Returning to his own birthplace, Kenya, Dawkins considers the brutal realities of the struggle for existence for wild animals on the plains of Africa. Here, he argues, we see the ongoing process sex, suffering and death, that drives evolution onward as the fittest survive to reproduce and the weakest perish without offspring.
The Fifth Ape
In the second episode Richard Dawkins deals with some of the philosophical and social ramifications of the theory of evolution.
Dawkins starts out in Kenya, speaking with palaeontologist Richard Leakey. He then visits Christ is the Answer Ministries, Kenya’s largest Pentecostal church, to interview Bishop Bonifes Adoyo. Adoyo has led the movement to press Kenya’s national museum to sideline its collection of hominid bones pointing to man’s evolution from ape to human.[5] The collection includes the Turkana Boy discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey in 1984.
Dawkins discusses social darwinism and eugenics, explaining how these are not versions of natural selection, and that “Darwin has been wrongly tainted”.
He then meets with evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker to discuss how morals can be compatible with natural selection. He goes on to explaining sexual selection, with peafowls as an example. To find out whether sexual selection plays a role for altruism and kindness among humans, he visits women who are looking for sperm donors, as well as a sperm bank manager. Dawkins also explains kin selection and selfish genes.
God Strikes Back
Richard Dawkins on natural selection, creationism and intelligent design In this final episode Dawkins examines why Darwin’s theory remains one of the most controversial ideas in history.
As Darwin set out on the voyage on the Beagle he still believed that god created the world and everything in it. But the evidence he discovered - fossils, patterns of anatomical resemblance, startling similarities of embryos and domestic breeding - demonstrated the truth: that all life forms vary and that some are more likely to reproduce, passing variations on. His wife Emma, however, was deeply religious and Darwin never criticised religion in public but he believed that “science would bring about a gradual illumination of minds”.
Today, Dawkins argues, science has the evidence to prove that evolution is true. Modern discovery of the DNA code which links all life has added to the mountain of evidence showing that evolution is a fact. So why, he wonders as he meets creationists in America, is opposition to evolution more aggressive than ever?
幕后花絮
EXTRAS
EXTRAS include
- The Lava Lizard’s Tale
- The Giant Tortoise’s Tale
- The Sea Turtle’s Tale
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- 维基百科：查尔斯·罗伯特·达尔文，（Charles Robert Darwin，1809年2月12日－1882年4月19日）
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