Analysis Of The Documentary 'What Darwin Didn' T Know

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What Darwin Didn’t know is a documentary made to broaden the audience’s knowledge about evolution. The documentary started out by describing a history about Charles Darwin. The documentary tells Darwin’s experience in Galapagos Islands, which inspires him to study evolution. After detailing many of Darwin’s concepts about evolution, the documentary shifts on describing many things about evolution that Darwin was not able to understand during his time. The documentary discusses the important concepts of genetics and the human genome, especially the Hox genes. The last topic of the documentary is about the uniqueness of humans. They explain what makes us humans and how we became unique compared to any creatures on earth. The most interesting

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