Ever been made to feel small? Here’s why being petite is no bad thing.
- Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
These are the shows that had our creative experts glued to the small screen in 2023.
Life on Our Planet has some important messages about the nature of evolution, and what the future may hold for us.
We may have become the most complex living creature in part by accident and replication of error.
In different parts of the world evolution often comes up with the same or similar solutions to life’s problems.
Only insects populations can compare to rising human numbers.
DNA analysis is beginning to reveal how wrong the long-accepted evolutionary tree is.
Darwin consideraba el pensamiento de las hembras animales como uniforme y no estratégico, por lo que tomarían decisiones similares.
Darwin thought female animals were non-strategic and uniform, making similar decisions.
Today’s birds evolved from feathered dinosaurs.
Evolution seems to lead to increasing complexity of species. But perhaps a dominant, intelligent species like humans will always end up destroying itself.
The mass extinction of the dinosaurs was down to the location of the asteroid’s impact and the kind of rocks it landed on.
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In part two of our podcast on rebooting, we explore what would happen if humanity was wiped out, take a look at a political comeback in France, and get a taste of a revamped US institution.
It may make sense for intelligent aliens to have two eyes and ears on one head, and to walk upright. But other particulars – including their colour – are more open to speculation.
Being big – larger than a dog – increases the risk of being wiped out in a mass extinction.
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