Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Season 1 Episode 2 Synopsis

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson is on a voyage to explore the relatedness of all livings things and the possible evolution of life in the cosmos. Go on a journey to discover how artificial selection turned the wolf into canine breeds and how natural selection sculpted the complex human eye.

Later, Tyson visits the grand Hall of Extinction, a monument to all the broken branches on the tree of life. Retrace the story of life on Earth and the unbroken thread that stretches from the first one-celled organisms to human life.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 2 of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey was watched by 4,950,000 viewers, resulting in a 2.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

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Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Standing Up In The Milky Way
• s01e02 - Some of the Things That Molecules Do
• s01e03 - When Knowledge Conquered Fear
• s01e04 - A Sky Full of Ghosts
• s01e05 - Hiding in the Light
• s01e06 - Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still
• s01e07 - The Clean Room
• s01e08 - Sisters of the Sun
• s01e09 - The Electric Boy
• s01e10 - The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
• s01e11 - The Immortals
• s01e12 - The World Set Free
• s01e13 - Unafraid of the Dark

Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Show Summary

Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, COSMOS will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. It will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale.

COSMOS will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the legendary original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.