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A Good Science Read: Evolution - from Fossils to Finches |
Professor Paul Smith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould and The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. |
Frances Ashcroft, Paul Smith |
16 Apr 2024 |
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Darwin's Fish: Evolutionary controversies in the fossil record |
See how modern analyses of the fossil record, genetics and development provide a new understanding of flatfish evolution, and how this bears on both the great flatfish controversy and the rate and nature of evolutionary change more broadly. |
Matt Friedman |
04 Oct 2013 |
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Darwin and Friends |
Professor Robin Dunbar explores if there is a limit to the number of friends we can keep track of and explains the origin of "Dunbar's Number". |
Robin Dunbar |
10 Feb 2011 |
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Slime Moulds to run the railways? |
Should we let slime moulds run our railways? Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway networks designed by people, despite having no central control over what they build. |
Mark Fricker |
10 Feb 2011 |
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Darwin 200: Dawkins and Harries |
Richard Dawkins and former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries recreate the famous Oxford evolution debate of 1860. |
Richard Dawkins, Richard Harries, Jeremy Paxman |
16 Feb 2009 |
