Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution
TV ShowTitle | Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 18, 2016 |
Release date of last episode | Feb 1, 2016 |
Genre | Documentary |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Lion Television |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 3 |
Three-part series in which Professor Richard Fortey investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and meets some of the unique and remarkable species that live on them. Examining some of the crucial influences on natural selection that are normally overlooked - like geology, geography, isolation and time - the series reveals that there is much more to evolution than 'survival of the fittest'. Charting the lifecycle of islands - from their birth and colonisation to the flowering of evolutionary creativity that often accompanies their maturity, and what happens when an island grows old and nears its end - Fortey encounters wild lemurs in the rainforest of Madagascar, acid-resistant shrimps in the rock pools of Hawaii, and giant wolf spiders in Madeira as he searches for the hidden rules of island evolution.