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Chris Packham’s Evolution series premieres on BBC Two
July 13, 2026 at 07:59 PM
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TGThe Guardian
Evolution review – with this TV miracle, David Attenborough’s successor is well and truly crowned
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TGThe Guardian
TV tonight: Chris Packham’s wondrous series about evolution
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‘We didn’t develop heads until we’d evolved an arse. I like that’: Chris Packham’s epic ode to evolution
(opens the publisher’s site)Chris Packham’s five-part series Evolution, tracing the history of life from a single common ancestor, debuted on BBC Two on 13 July 2026.
- The series examines the 4-billion-year evolutionary history from the single-celled organism Luca to modern animals.
- Packham said the show aims to challenge the perception that evolution is slow and that humans are its ultimate goal.
- Packham stated that 99% of all species that ever lived are extinct and that evolution is an ongoing process.
- Packham called for "an evolution of human hope" in the series' concluding soliloquy.