Evolution
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- Posted18 April 2017
Did the Victorians Ruin the World? Series 1, Darwinism. Audio, 14 minutes
Whose idea was more powerful - Darwin's good one or his cousin Francis Galton's awful one?
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- Posted4 April 2017
The Life Scientific. Daniel Dennett on the evolution of the human brain. Audio, 28 minutes
Daniel Dennett talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the evolution of the human brain.
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- Posted22 March 2017
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- Posted22 March 2017
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- Posted22 March 2017
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- Posted8 March 2017
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- Posted1 March 2017
Science In Action. How Bird’s Beaks Evolved. Audio, 27 minutes
Birds display an incredible diversity of beak shapes and sizes, but how did they evolve?
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One to One. Peter Bazalgette on Empathy. Audio, 14 minutes
Television executive Peter Bazalgette examines empathy, with primatologist Frans de Waal.
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The Life Scientific. Lynne Boddy on Fungi. Audio, 28 minutes
Lynne Boddy enthuses about fungi.
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Discovery. Our Unnatural Selection. Audio, 27 minutes
How humans are inadvertently driving the evolution of other species
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Brainwaves. Series 3, Professor Lee Cronin. Audio, 28 minutes
Pennie Latin meets Professor Lee Cronin, who talks about recreating the origins of life.
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The Forum. Shells. Audio, 28 minutes
What shells can tell us about our past, present and future.
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Discovery. The Great Telescopes and Evolution. Audio, 27 minutes
Simon Schaffer tells of the astronomers who grappled with evolution long before Darwin.
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Science Stories. Seeing is Believing - The Leviathan of Parsonstown. Audio, 28 minutes
Simon Schaffer tells of the astronomers who grappled with evolution long before Darwin.
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The Origins of War. Audio, 28 minutes
Is war a uniquely human act, or can its origins be found in our evolutionary past?
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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. How the Leopard got his spots. Audio, 15 minutes
Vivienne Parry presents 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, 30 minutes
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined by rationalist comedian and musician Tim Minchin.
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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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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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