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.

MULTICELLULAR CREATURES

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 called 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 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 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, 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, 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. 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 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 the continue the
advancement of biology and how living beings come to be what they are.

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THE END