“Great minds think alike.” BioInteractive’s new short film tracks the early lives of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as they traveled around the world collecting specimens that shaped their ideas about how life on Earth formed. Despite disagreements from the Church and much of the general public, both men changed their views about immutable creationism, using evidence to reach different conclusions. The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory, hosted by noted evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll and produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, takes viewers on the journeys that brought these men to the same ideas about evolution.
The short film begins with a dramatization of Wallace’s early years on a ship traveling through the Amazon. It was there where Wallace noticed similarities and differences between species that led him to question how they came into being. Although his collections, as well as his notes, were...
University of California Press