Evolution app

Video

Get a flavour of our new NHM Evolution app in this short video.

Details

Starting from the first signs of ancient life in Strelley Pool, Western Australia, iPad users can swipe, pinch and tap the breath-taking illustrated Timeband to discover over 800 creatures and plants from our evolutionary past.

Combining the latest digital technology, audio-visual footage and painstaking research of the fossil record, NHM Evolution presents 100 major fossil sites for exploration. 

Using the touch-screen functionality, users can explore and scrutinise every detail and learn at their own speed.

Go behind the scenes with Museum scientists as they explain key events using specimens from the collections. Learn about the origins of life, snowball glaciations, the Cambrian explosion, evolving dinosaurs and human evolution. Examine iconic fossils with the use of spectacular 360-degree, high definition imagery.

Features include:

• A Timeband featuring 100 major archaeological sites and 800 creatures and plants that lived there
• A dynamic Timeglobe based on a unique set of data compiled specially for the app, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates have reconfigured through time for every fossil site.
• A complete Timeline, with text and audio commentaries for every eon, era and period.
• A spell-binding Exhibition feature, which presents 34 iconic fossils for examination.
• 17 individual multi-media treatments explaining the great Events of Earth’s evolutionary past, including snowball glaciations and mass extinctions.
• Many pinch and expand 360-degree rotations of significant fossils.
• Pinch and expand, full-frame high resolution views for all 570 images.
• 10 specially-commissioned tutorial videos from some of the Museum’s leading experts.
• A library of reference materials including 38 biographies of the pioneers of evolutionary theory.

The NHM Evolution app is available to download now from iTunes.

To find out more, you can also watch a short video about the app.

Awards

NHM Evolution has been awarded the QED Seal of approval at the Publishing Innovation Awards 2013. 

The QED Seal, which stands for Quality, Excellence, Design, signals to an app user that the title will render well in whatever their preferred reading format and that they can buy with confidence. The process consists of a 13 point checklist to ensure a high quality user experience.

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Evolution app for iPad

Evolution app for iPad

Evolution app for iPad

Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

A screen shot from the Evolution app for iPad

About the experts

Researched and authored by science writer and lecturer, Douglas Palmer, the app has been accredited, endorsed and supplemented by experts from the Natural History Museum’s world-renowned Palaeontology Department.

Contributors include: 

• Dr Paul Kenrick
• Prof. Chris Stringer
• Prof. Adrian Lister
• Dr Jerry Hooker
• Dr Martin Munt
• Dr Angela Milner

The app is developed in association with Authored Apps.