Evolución

A selection of photographs from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales that traces the evolutionary processes of animal life, from camouflage to the role of human beings in the planet's history.

The exhibition brings together photographs of animals and of the evolutionary processes that have shaped biodiversity. The images show amphibians, reptiles, birds and insects, and are grouped into five areas: El teatrillo ecológico, Coevolución, Selección sexual, Evolución social and Evolución en el Antropoceno. The route invites visitors to see nature as a dynamic space in which adaptation, collaboration and conflict are combined.

Among the strategies that appear in the photographs are camouflage, translucency and the warning colourations with which some animals warn their predators. Habitat is presented as a stage on which species interact with one another and with their environment.

The exhibition is organised by the Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva, an organisation dedicated to popularising this discipline. The photographs are the work of Roberto García Roa, Alejandra Rendón, Gerard Carbonell, Jaime Culebras, Joan de la Malla, Joan A. Juárez and Merche Llobera, and the visit also raises a reflection on the role of human beings in the evolutionary history of the planet.