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Discover all the incredible educational materials available for HHMI's AMAZON ADVENTURE award winning film which tells the science adventure story of Henry Bates and his extraordinary 11-year journey through the Amazon. Despite being entirely self-taught, he made crucial contributions to evolutionary biology. While identifying 8,000 species new to science, he discovered the phenomenon of “Batesian” mimicry and provided to Charles Darwin the “beautiful proof” for what is widely considered the most important scientific explanation of the development of life on Earth – natural selection. .
