Biology
Past Biology Lectures
How does my dog see? Do eagles have better vision than humans? This homocentric view of vision with its associated mythology...
How closely are we related to each other, and how recently do we all share an ancestor? The answer to those questions is: closer...
In Rudyard Kipling's Just So story, the Leopard got its spots when the Ethiopian painted them on with his fingers. In the real world...
In this talk Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods depend so much on wild plant diversity. He outlines the current threats to...
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At the end of the eighteenth...
An overview of the history of botanical collecting: the characters and their stories; the motivations and disagreements; the current...
What can the study of height, health and welfare teach us...
From Malthus to the Club of Rome, predictions about maximum population size have been too conservative. We now live with 6-7 billion...
It has long...
Homo sapiens have been around for 250,000 years - surely long enough to have become fully evolved?
It was thought that the...
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How will the Eurozone crisis impact on the UK's relationship with the EU?
In the past, the UK has always insisted on keeping a seat at the heart of the system. But it now suggests that...
