Traveling through fossil beds around the world, Ward describes a number of indications that the earth's biodiversity is at risk again, but points out that this time the causes are clearly linked to human activity. As examples, both carbon dioxide emissions and habitat destruction are contributing to unprecedented global warming with species disappearing at a rate of three per hour. Written and directed by Tom Radford, THE END OF EVOLUTION charts the highs and lows of the planet's biodiversity over the ages, describing the causes underlying periods of mass extinction in the earth's history and asks "are we on the verge of another mass extinction in the Earth's history?"
