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Scientists explain how their unique perspectives have redefined how we see the world

Influential and respected scientists explain how their unique scientific perspectives have redefined how we think about the world around us

Beautiful Minds: Series 2

Jenny Clack

Alex Steinitz

Sacha Baveystock

Beautiful Minds: Series 2: Episode 1: Professor Jenny Clack

Professor Jenny Clack

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Episode 1: Professor Jenny Clack

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BBC Four - Beautiful Minds, Series 2, Professor Jenny Clack

Palaeontologist Jenny Clack recounts how she found and described the fossil Acanthostega.

Jenny Clack recounts how she overcame setbacks before she found and described a fossil which offered new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.

For palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack, who solved one of the greatest mysteries in the history of life on Earth, success was far from inevitable. She recounts how she had to overcome a series of setbacks before she found and described the fossil Acanthostega, a 365 million-year-old creature that offered dramatic new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.

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Three scientists explain how their work has redefined how we think about the world

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