Have you ever thought how far back in time the history of species dates to? How has the biodiversity of our planet evolved?

With the help of the audio walk, you can travel back in time to explore the origins of squirrels, pines or dragonflies and other species familiar to us. The audio tracks serve as an introduction to animal and plant biology, evolution and interaction between species, mixing them with exercises that engage with listeners embodied imagination.

The trail consists of ten QR code grids spread along the nature trail of Villa Elfvik. The nature trail is about 800m long and accessible. You can find a map of the Audio walk from the Info of the Nature House. To listen to the trail, you need a phone to scan the QR codes and headphones. Headphones can be borrowed from the Info of the Nature House.

The tracks are listened from past to present, starting with track 1: Fossils and ending with track 10: Present time. But you can also listen to only part of the tracks. The total duration of the audio tracks is about 32 minutes. You can listen to the tracks in either Finnish or English.

For more information about the tracks and text versions: https://www.evolutioninaction.fi/biodiversity-and-evolutionary-history.html

The Audio walk is produced by the University of Jyväskylä's Evolution in Action project, which is funded by the Kone Foundation in 2025.

Biodiversity & Evolutionary history Audio walk

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