Museum of Nature

®Evolution

Explosion in species numbers, fight for survival within restricted spaces and slow adaptation: nobody knows exactly how many species of animals and plants there are on the Earth today. The figure is estimated at 13 million. Researchers are discovering new species all the time – others have already lost the “fight for existence” or are threatened with extinction. These changes in living nature are known as evolution.

The special exhibition at the Nature Museum is a live demonstration of evolution: living plants and animals in the exhibition make it clear that evolution is a visible process. The exhibition shows how the huge variety in nature is even possible – starting with a voyage around the world 175 years ago which revolutionised the perception of nature of natural historian Charles Darwin. Man enters the stage of the exhibition as an “evolution maker”: by breeding, he creates “variety” all of his own. At the end of the day, does this too have an influence on the progress of evolution? 

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