Some of these stories tell of a god who created the world and everything in it,including people. Other stories have many gods, who each made different things and then fought great battles for control of the world.

Be an interactive eyewitness to the work of Charles Darwin and the fascinating story of evolution, bringing to life the incredible ideas that transformed our understanding of life on Earth and where we came from.

Creation stories

Fossils and fairytales

Victims of the flood

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

Extinct animals

A series of catastrophes

Dinosaur frenzy

Charles Darwin

Living evidence

Animal and plant distribution

Fossil evidence

How old is Earth?

Artificial selection

Variation and inheritance

The struggle for existence

Natural selection

Understanding adaptation

How new species are formed

Living intermediates

Fossil intermediates

Jumps and gaps

Ladders and branches

Gregor Mendel

Solving the DNA puzzle

The molecular evidence

The origin of life

Science and belief

History of life

Up to the present

Classifying life

Discoveries in Evolution

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Glossary

Index