The CW Developing Charles Darwin Drama UNNATURAL SELECTION

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy are headed to The CW in UNNATURAL SELECTION a new drama series from Adam Karp.

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The story follows "a 21-year-old Darwin, and his childhood friend Capt. FitzRoy's journey through the Amazon to return the woman they both love to her native home. During the journey, they encounter a land ripe with political conflict, mysterious creatures, mythical cities and dangerous foes beyond their wildest imagination."

UNNATURAL SELECTION is loosely based on Darwin and FitzRoy's five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, which took place before Darwin came up with his "Origin of Species."

Karp is also writing CBS's new series MODERN GOTHIC with David Reed.

Photo Credit: Cover of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, first edition owned by Whitman College, Walla Walla, 1859. Courtesy Whitman College and Northwest Archives.

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