简述
自然科学类纪录片，PBS 频道 2001 年出品。
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影片信息
官方网站
http://pbs.org/evolution/
影片原始规格:
中文片名 ：进化
中文系列名：
英文片名 ：Evolution
英文系列名：
电视台 ：PBS
地区 ：美国
导演 ：David Espar
Susan K. Lewis
影片内容介绍
劇情簡介
本片是PBS关于进化论的阐述
1859年，达尔文提出了进化论学说，他认为生物不是神创造的，而是经过漫长的岁月从简单到复杂进化来的。严格地说，进化论至今都只是一种假说，当年达尔文希望将来能发现确凿的证据，可是禁得起检验的证据至今也没有找到，而且进化论的理论与事实也出入太大，论证模棱两可，结论也无法重复。后来的学者是把进化论当作一种科学的信仰继承下来的。也正是因为信仰，才把它当成真理介绍给学术界和公众，这种新奇的假说很快形成了一个流行的信仰，人云亦云，被人们当成了真理。
然而，严谨的学者清楚：接受的人多并不能把一个假说上升为真理，真理需要严密的推理和无可辩驳的证据，这正是进化论所缺乏的。笔者多年来热衷于进化论的研究，也一度在感情上强烈地维护着它的尊严。但是面对越来越多的事实，严谨的思考使我看到了进化论的错误所在。在此，笔者希望用通俗的语言，把进化论的问题和一些鲜为人知的事实公诸于世。希望改变这一百多年来，进化论者代替公众在思考、甚至代替其它领域的科学家在决定真理这样一个局面。在事实面前，在严谨的推理面前，把理智思考的机会留给每一个人。
Evolution offers a groundbreaking and definitive view of the extraordinary impact the evolutionary process has had on our understanding of the world around us. Beginning with Darwin s revolutionary theory, this seven-part series explores all facets of evolution the changes that spawned the tree of life, the power of sex, how evolution continues to affect us every day, and the perceived conflict between science and religion.
分集介绍
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
For 21 years, Charles Darwin kept his theory of evolution secret from all but a few friends. He confided to one: "It is like confessing to a murder." His torment resonates in society today in the challenge his incredibly powerful idea poses to our understanding of our world and ourselves. We interweave the drama in key moments of Darwin's life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. We also explore why Darwin's "dangerous idea" matters perhaps even more today than it did in his own time, and how it conveys the power of science to explain the past and predict the future of life on earth.
Great Transformations
What triggered the incredible diversity of life on earth, and how have complex life forms, including humans, evolved? Is there direction to evolution? And is human intelligence inevitable? We focus on evolution's "great transformations," among them the development of a standard four-limbed body plan, the journey from water to land, the return of marine mammals to the sea, and the emergence of humans. Driven by a combination of opportunism and a genetic "toolkit," these astounding leaps forward define the arc of evolution. And they suggest that every living creature on earth today, and every species that has ever existed, is a variation on a grand genetic theme, a member of one, and only one, tree of life.
Extinction!
Some 99.9 percent of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct. While cataclysmic events on earth have pruned the tree of life, extinction also opens the door to diversity, carving out room for new species to emerge and thrive. This film explores the causes of the five mass extinctions that have occurred over the life of the planet, and takes us to the sources of extinctions happening today. In doing so, it confronts a frightening notion: Are we humans causing the next mass extinction, the sixth in the history of life on earth? If so, what does evolutionary theory predict for the world we will leave to our descendants?
Evolutionary Arms Race
"Survival of the fittest." Raw competition? Or, a level of cooperation indispensable to life? Evolution tells us that both are important. We explore our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms, the only entities that can pose a threat to our existence. We follow the struggles of medical detectives uncovering the roots of epidemics and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease, like the new virulent tuberculosis nicknamed "Ebola with wings." Interactions between species are among the most powerful evolutionary forces on earth, and understanding them may be key to our own survival.
Why Sex?
In evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself without progeny, we are evolutionary losers. Sex fuels evolutionary change, by adding variation to the gene pool and eliminating unsatisfactory traits. We look at the endless variety of sexual expression and the powerful hold sex exerts over almost all living things. And we explore how the need to pass on our genes has shaped our own bodies, minds, and lives. Some scientists believe that art, literature, music in fact all of human culture may be the ultimate result of our sexual drives.
Minds Big Bang
Anatomically modern humans existed more than 100,000 years ago, but with crude technology, no art, and primitive social interaction. By 50,000 years ago, something had happened which triggered a creative, technological, and social explosion and humans came to dominate the planet. This was a pivotal point in our evolution, the time when the human mind truly emerged. The Mind's Big Bang examines forces that may have contributed to the breakthrough, allowing us to prevail over other hominids, the Neanderthals, who co-existed with us for tens of thousands of years. The film then explores where this power of mind may lead us, as the culture we create overtakes our own biological evolution.
What About God?
Of all the species on earth, only humans try to explain who they are and how they came to be, through the prisms of both science and religion. Today, the theory of evolution is dogged by this tension. What About God? explores the controversy by drawing on real human stories of people struggling to find a balance between religion and science. Through their perceptions, the film underscores the point that these realms are compatible, although they play very different roles in assigning order to the universe and a purpose to life.
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Category:片名 Category:PBS Category:2001 Category:3. 自然科学类 Category:3.7 生物学 Category:3.71 演化 Category:6. 史地类 Category:6.2 地理 Category:缺翻译
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