Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution: Hawaii: A New Eden

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Palaeontologist Richard Fortey investigates why islands are natural laboratories of evolution and examines the unique and remarkable species that live on them. He begins by heading to Hawaii to investigate how life colonises a newly-formed island, and encounters honeycreeper birds whose development rivals that of Darwin's famous finches, as well as carnivorous caterpillars that now cannot eat leaves, and giant silversword plants that thrive in parched volcanic soil at heights of 10,000ft.

Moderator: Richard Fortey