A personal view by J. Bronowski in 13 programmes
12: Generation upon Generation
Strangely, it is the sciences of mathematics and physics that have revolutionised biology in our own century and brought a new precision to our understanding of life. DR BRONOWSKI follows the story from the quiet experiments of Gregor Mendel to the awesome, and perhaps dangerous, power that our unravelling of the code of inheritance has given us. He argues that we should see sex as the gift that preserves the diversity of human individuality.
He is everything a professor should be ... informal, quite uripatronising, but often exalted ... (THE LISTENER) Producer DICK GILLING
Series editor ADRIAN MALONE
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