生命之旅

地球生物征服世界的奇妙故事从地球的微生物诞生一直进化到人类，我们将被帶领游历一段由海洋到上天下地的惊奇探索旅程。《生命始中寻》一连五集为你展示令人震惊的地球生物进化过程，包括人类是由鱼进化而成，生物的腿、卵与翼是怎样演变出來的，甚至它怎样捕食，都透過崭新与特別的视觉效果，与你见证所有重要时刻。本片披露了生物的头颅、脊椎与四肢的基本蓝图是怎样源于大海中，螃蟹为何迁出大海到陆地，有如小型飞机般大的翼龙为何会在天空飞翔。从海洋到陆地再到天空，揭示海洋才是生命的泉源。而各类生物是怎样互相掠食、竞争，及至互相合作，才得以生存。人类是怎样超越其他生物，成为万物之灵。一切都会令你大开眼界。Journey of LifeSteve Leonard tells the astonishing story that links simple microbes to mankind and explains the extraordinary variety of life seen today.Programme 1: Seas of LifeSteve travels back 3.8 billion years to when life began. Journeying round the oceans, he explores life's first laboratory and discovers how the incredible variety of sea creatures arose, from the first microbes to hagfish and dolphins.Programme 2: Land GrabSteve tracks the pioneer life forms as they emerged from the seas and evolved adaptations to make them ever better able to cope with life on land, from the searing heat of the deserts to the icy polar wastes.Programme 3: AirborneAnimals crawled on to the land 500 million years ago, but it was another 100 million years before life finally became airborne. Just four kinds of animals achieved the miracle of flight. Insects led the way, but their story is still shrouded in mystery.Programme 4: Living TogetherThe greatest evolutionary challenge faced by living things has been each other! From cunning carnivores to sex crazed elk, Steve reveals how the relationships between living things can drive evolution itself - with some truly bizarre results.Programme 5: Human LifeFive million years ago we separated from our chimpanzee cousins. Steve Leonard looks back to explain how landscape changes drew us down from the trees and out on to the newly formed African savannah.