Fantastic Voyage

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

NARRATOR

Ever since the dawn of time on Earth, evolution has been taking place across generations of living
things over thousands, millions even of years. As an environment changes so do its inhabitants.

Jellyfish-like creatures soon begin to appear on screen with one containing an image of a

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.

MULTICELLULAR CREATURES

Meorp!

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Through his observations he discovered that species in large populations often struggle to attain a
substantial amount of food unless they were already adapted to their surroundings. Thus, he
theorized that species end up diversifying to better suit their environments due to what he later
called the survival of the fittest, the better adapted animals through variation go to reproduce more
and carrying on their superior traits.

Creatures are shown fighting over food, with one creature shown evolving and having a different
appearance. Time fasts forward millions of years and a new species emerges.

EVOLVED MULTICELLULAR CREATURE

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 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, the species become 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 creature comes happens upon a desert tree and attempts to eat the vegetation on it. It struggles
and fails before ultimately dying off.

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As a result of these mutations caused in the DNA of animals and the gradual process of reproduction
across generations will result in an organism becoming adept at thriving in its new environment, a
process which can take a million years. Those that are not already adapted to the different
environments are likely to face extinction the complete disappearance of a species.

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.

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. It zooms in a
fossil of a creature before moving on to concentrate on an image of Darwin on a rock.

NARRATOR

While Darwin’s theory would take some time to catch on due to the lack of evidence, they 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

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