The Day the Universe Changed — Season 1, Episode 8: Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution

Episode synopsis

Tracks the expectation of change, fundamental to contemporary society, through the developing sciences of botany, geology, and biology to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin’s theory, in turn, has been used as a justification for Nazism, communism, and cut-throat capitalism.

About The Day the Universe Changed

Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
• E2In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
• E3Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
• E4A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
• E5Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
• E6Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
• E7What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
• E9Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
• E10Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality