Catastrophe (series)
5 x 45m for Channel 4, Discovery
99% of all the creatures that have ever lived, no longer exist.
They were wiped-out in a series of global catastrophes. Each
disaster changed the course of evolution on earth. Without them
mankind, nor any of the life we see around us, would be here today.
For out of catastrophe comes rebirth.
Evolution is a savage, imperfect and violent process. It's
survive or perish. The earth's history of catastrophes has both
moulded the planet and determined evolution. For each disaster led
to another leap forward on the evolutionary trail form single
celled bacteria to humankind itself.