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Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden

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Runtime: 60m episodes
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Charles Darwin came up with some ingenious experiments to prove his theory of evolution. Jimmy Doherty attempts to recreate some of these investigations.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 5, 2009
Network: BBC Two

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3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden

20091 Season60m episodes7.0

Documentary

TMDB7.0

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Charles Darwin came up with some ingenious experiments to prove his theory of evolution. Jimmy Doherty attempts to recreate some of these investigations.

Where to watch

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Mar 5, 2009 · 1h 0m
Dangerous Ideas
When Charles Darwin set about proving his theory of evolution, he had none of the advantages of modern genetics or DNA analysis so he came up with some ingenious experiments of his own. In this series, Jimmy Doherty recreates many of these investigations. Jimmy takes a hands-on approach as he digs up a patch of turf in Darwin's own garden in Kent to illustrate the struggle for existence; he ropes down a chalk cliff to explore the age of the Earth; and he lets seeds soak in salt water for a month. The smelly results from this experiment prove that plants have the potential to cross oceans.
E2 · Airs Mar 12, 2009 · 1h 0m
The Storm Breaks
Jimmy Doherty continues to work his way through Charles Darwin's series of experiments that formed the basis of On the Origin of Species, like feeding human urine and sausage to Venus flytraps to see which the plant prefers. Some experiments are more tricky, though, requiring Doherty to catch a peacock or fiddle about with a flower's stamen and pistil. Interestingly, it seems that Darwin had a personal reason for investigating the problems caused by interbreeding. He was married to his first cousin Emma (not the only cousins within their families to marry) and was concerned that this was the reason three of his ten children died at an early age.
E3 · Airs Mar 19, 2009 · 1h 0m
Of Apes And Men
Jimmy Doherty endures having electrodes put on his face to induce a smile, places a snake in a box inside a monkey's cage and plays the bassoon to some earthworms, as the series recreating some of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking experiments concludes.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Mar 5, 2009
Network: BBC Two

Time to finish

3 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

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