Excellent Documentary of Charles Darwin
Head on over to CBC. The Nature of Things by David Suzuki has an excellent documentary of Charles Documentary. You can currently view parts I and II on the site. Part III will be available next week.
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this is actually an ABC (Australia) production. if you’re outside Canada you can watch the doc on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3hzyk-jD0
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