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Professor Lewis Wolpert discusses his controversial ideas about belief, science education and much more with Vienna Leigh from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Ages: 16-19;
This short book describes the development of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and examines its wider impact.
Ages: 16-19;
These two DVD sets, produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as part of its Holiday Lectures on Science programme, address two highly interesting subjects which directly or indirectly affect our everyday lives: biological clocks and evolution.
Ages: 16-19;
Everyone does it everywhere all the time. I am not talking about Germans smoking, Americans eating burgers, or adults having sex – although the latter gets us thinking in the right direction.
Ages: 16-19;
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction and Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction are both real tours de force and very engaging books. Their small size makes them easy to pack and take away to read during any spare moments.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Pongprapan Pongsophon, Vantipa Roadrangka and Alison Campbell from Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrate how a difficult concept in evolution can be explained with equipment as simple as a box of buttons!
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
“If you are not interested in how evolution came about, and cannot conceive how anyone could be seriously concerned about anything other than human affairs, then do not read it: it will only make you needlessly angry,” wrote John Maynard Smith about The Selfish Gene.
Ages: 16-19;
Paul Tafforeau from the University of Poitiers and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, explains what synchrotron X-ray studies of fossil teeth can tell us about the evolution of orang-utans – and our own origins.
Ages: 16-19;
Russ Hodge from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, reports on the first complete survey of 'molecular machines' in yeast.
Ages: 16-19;
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of DNA fingerprinting, remembers his childhood passion for science, explains what we have learned from direct DNA analysis, and describes his work with Chernobyl survivors. Interviewed by Russ Hodge and Anna-Lynn Wegener from the European Molecular Biology…
Ages: 16-19;
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Interview with Lewis Wolpert
Topics: Biology, General science, Profiles
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Darwin’s ‘The Origin of Species’, By Janet Browne
Topics: Resources
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Clockwork Genes: Discoveries in Biological Time and Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads
Topics: Resources
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The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved, By Robbins Burling
Topics: Resources
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Fossils: A Very Short Introduction and Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction, By Keith Thomson and David Norman
Topics: Resources
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Counting Buttons: demonstrating the Hardy-Weinberg principle
Topics: Biology
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The Selfish Gene and Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, By Richard Dawkins
Topics: Resources
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Synchrotron light illuminates the orang-utan’s obscure origins
Topics: Physics, Biology
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The yeast proteome: retooling the factory floor
Topics: Biology
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Alec Jeffreys interview: a pioneer on the frontier of human diversity
Topics: Biology, General science, Chemistry, Science and society
