Synopsis

NOVA guides its audience on a sweeping exploration, traversing landscapes from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and spanning eons from the Cambrian explosion of life half a billion years past to modern research laboratories. There, scientists are at long last beginning to unravel nature’s most profound mysteries at the level of the genome. As this compelling narrative demonstrates, the findings confirm the power of Darwin's observations while revealing glimpses of life’s astonishing variety