Evolution
The Life Scientific. Richard Fortey on fossils. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili meets Mr Trilobite, the palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey.
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The Life Scientific. Mike Benton. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili discusses digging up dinosaurs in remote places with Prof Mike Benton.
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Just So Science. Series 1, 2. How the Leopard got his Spots. Audio, 15 minutes
More of the science behind some of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
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The Infinite Monkey Cage. Series 5, The Origins of Life. Audio, 28 minutes
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by rationalist comedian and musician Tim Minchin.
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Audio, 30 minutes
How common is simultaneous discovery in science and is it a case of convergent evolution?
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In Our Time. The Origins of Infectious Disease. Audio, 42 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of infectious disease.
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The Cuckoo. Audio, 30 minutes
A fascinating insight into one of Nature's greatest cheats.
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Frontiers. Acts of Creation. Audio, 30 minutes
What will it mean to us once scientists are eventually able to recreate life from scratch?
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Heart and Soul. Biblically Correct Tours. Audio, 27 minutes
Frank Faulk goes on a Biblically Correct Tour and sees an encounter between an evolutionist and a creationist in Denver.
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Frontiers. Synthetic Biology. Audio, 30 minutes
Richard Hollingham investigates the questions raised by synthetic biology.
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In Our Time. Genetic Mutation. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
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In Our Time. The Permian-Triassic Boundary. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Permian-Triassic boundary in evolutionary history.
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Frontiers. Dinosaurs. Audio, 30 minutes
Peter Evans meets dinosaur hunters discovering new species of the creatures every week.
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In Our Time. Altruism. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.
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Great Lives. Charles Darwin. Audio, 30 minutes
Businessman and academic Adair Turner talks about the life of Charles Darwin.
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In Our Time. Pragmatism. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the American philosophy of pragmatism.
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In Our Time. Mammals. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.
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Heart and Soul. The Galapagos Islands. Audio, 12 minutes
Exploring the contradiction of the religious groups in the birth place of evolution theory
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Frontiers. Human Evolution. Audio, 30 minutes
Peter Evans explores new findings which have implications for evolutionary theory.
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In Our Time. The Cambrian Period. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.
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In Our Time. Lamarck and Natural Selection. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French precursor to Darwin.
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Science View. Human Evolution. Audio, 24 minutes
Could humans have developed from homo erectus simultaneously in Africa, Asia and Europe?
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