Evolution story
Evolution is a 2001 American comic science fiction film directed by Ivan Reitman. Synopsis: A pair of college professors investigate a meteorite crash in Arizona. They discover that the meteorite harbors extraterrestrial lifeforms, which are evolving very quickly into large, diverse and outlandish creatures.
16 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| invasive life form from outer space | choice | The main novelty of the film is that some alien microbes hitched a ride to the Arizona desert on a meteor, began to evolve at an accelerated rate, and soon thereafter gave rise to complex creatures that seemed destined to overrun the entire Earth. |
| romantic love | major | The story built up to Ira and Allison falling in love in the end. |
| scientist occupation | major | The story follows the local college science professors Ira Kane and Harry Block as they study newly discovered, fast-evolving extraterrestrial microbes that had hitched a ride to Earth on a meteor. |
| super accelerated Darwinian evolution | major | The extraterrestrial microbes evolved into complex dinosaur-like creatures in just a handful of days. |
| biology | minor | Ira discovered that the extraterrestrial life forms reproduced asexually via mitosis. |
| brother and brother | minor | The brothers Deke and Danny Donald, two of Ira's dumbest students, put their heads together to come up with a clever way to destroy the fast proliferating extraterrestrial life forms. |
| genetics | minor | Ira discovered that the extraterrestrial life was nitrogen-based and had DNA that consisted of ten base pairs. |
| geology | minor | Professor Harry Block made a point that he was a representative of the U.S. Geological Survey when he went to sample a recently crashed meteor. |
| giant monster | minor | Ira and his party had to take on an immense amoeba-like blob that stood hundreds of feet tall toward the end of the film. |
| heroism | minor | The Arizona Governor declared Ira, Harry, Wayne and Allison heroes in the immediate aftermath of their killing of the giant amoeba-like blob. |