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Fantastic Voyage

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EXT. Ocean

Establishing shot of a vast and encompassing ocean, crystalline with the shining down on it.

NARRATOR

Ever since the dawn of time, evolution has been taking place in every living organism. As an
environment changes so do its inhabitants.

Jellyfish-like creatures soon begin to appear on screen with one containing an image of
Charles Darwin, the HMS Beagle and the Galapagos Islands.

NARRATOR

This process, takes place in all creatures big and small, is known as natural selection. The
theory was the result of the findings by biologist Charles Darwin during his expedition on the
HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Islands in the 19th century.

The camera pans across the ocean until it zooms on an island. Cut to a beach and field with small
multicellular scattered around eating grass and fallen leaves.

SMALL CREATURE 1

Meorp!

NARRATOR

Through his observations he observed that specific species through variation were able to eat
certain food. Thus, he theorized that species end up diversifying across many generations to
better suit their environments due to what he later would call natural selection. The better
adapted animals, through reproduction, have their offspring inherit their genetic
characteristics otherwise known as phenotypes over the course of many generations until a
new species emerges.

Creatures are shown fighting over food, with one creature passing by and having a different
appearance. It finds a leaf to eat and consumes it.

SMALL CREATURE 2

Moorb!
They continue to venture into the land until they happen upon a fork in their path. The right leads
to an environment like where the creatures are now but with more foliage and another dry and
arid with very little vegetation. Some of the creatures go the former others the latter. In the
desert environment the creatures struggle to survive. One creature finds a tree and attempts
to eat the fruit from it.

NARRATOR

To elaborate, survival of the fittest can occur also when a species habitat either sees dramatic
changes, such as the species becoming geographically isolated. Such as the finches of the
Galapagos which having been isolated saw already evolved populations thriving to eat
differently with varied beaks on varying species than their unevolved ancestors.

A jellyfish is shown rising from the water containing an image of Darwin’s finches while the
small creature passes by.

A creature comes happens upon a desert tree and attempts to eat the vegetation on it,
struggling to eat.

NARRATOR

Reproduction across generations will result in an organism becoming better suited at thriving
in its new environment, but it is a process that can take millions of years. Those that haven’t
undergone evolution are unlikely to thrive in their new environment. In fact, they may face
extinction - the complete disappearance of a species.

The unevolved creature dies off leaving a skull. Time fasts forward millions of years until a new
species appears.

NARRATOR

In an adapted species, these new traits can range in purpose from camouflage to hide from
predators, different shaped mouths to feed on different food, various skin types to better
survive in their new habitats such as hardened, spiny skin to live in hot deserts.

A montage shows various creatures with differentiating attributes while a visual pop up naming
them. The camera then cuts to panning of shot a grassy field with creatures roaming around. A
rock with a carving of Darwin shown

NARRATOR

While Darwin’s theory would take time to be accepted, his ideas would eventually shape the
foundations for evolutionary biology for years to come thanks to the discovery of fossils and
DNA. These discoveries were made by great and intelligent scientists working to develop and
continue the advancement of biology and how living beings come to be what they are.

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THE END

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