OU on the BBC: Charles Darwin And The Tree of Life
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Duration 5 mins
Updated 19 Apr 2013
David Attenborough takes a passionate, personal journey through Darwin's discoveries.
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Get the Darwin Now podcast
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Duration 5 mins
Updated 09 Dec 2009
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Darwin Now pod 9: Living legacy
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Duration 15 mins
Updated 08 Dec 2009
Find out how Darwin’s scientific legacy is being carried forward in this year of the bicentenary of his birth.
Origin Day Lecture: Audience Question Six
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Introductory Level
Duration 5 mins
Updated 25 Nov 2009
Would the panel care to comment on the grip that creationism has on the minds of the wider public?
Origin Day lecture: Randal Keynes response
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Introductory Level
Duration 10 mins
Updated 24 Nov 2009
Randal Keynes offers his response to EO Wilson's lecture.
Origin Day lecture: Sandy Knapp response
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Duration 10 mins
Updated 24 Nov 2009
Sandy Knapp offers a response to Professor Wilson's lecture
Origin Day Lecture: Audience Question Three
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Duration 5 mins
Updated 24 Nov 2009
In 50 million years' time is the impact of modern man on biodiversity going to look significantly different from the meteorite strike which we believe...
Tour of John Murray Publishers
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Duration 10 mins
Updated 24 Nov 2009
John Murray, descendent of Darwin's original publishers, gives us a tour of the offices where biology - and literary - history were made.
Darwin, 'The Origin' and the future of biology
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Duration 15 mins
Updated 24 Nov 2009
On the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Professor E O Wilson, considered by many as Darwin’s natural...
Origin Day Lecture: Audience Question Two
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Duration 5 mins
Updated 24 Nov 2009
If Darwin were alive today, what area of evolutionary science would he be working in, and why?
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Evolution through natural selection
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Duration 4 hours
Updated 18 May 2013
In this unit, we describe the theory of evolution by natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin in his book, first published in 1859, On...
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