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Professor Brian Cox asks what is life and how did it begin?

Professor Brian Cox explores the globe to reveal how a few fundamental laws of science gave birth to the most complex and unique feature of the universe - life.

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Brian Cox explains how life is shaped by both the environment and the laws of nature.

Brian Cox tells the story of the amazing diversity and adaptability of life told through the fundamental laws that govern it, in a version of the Wonders of Life made for schools.

From algal cells to human beings we are all made of the same things and governed by the same laws as the stars themselves. This is the story of the amazing diversity and adaptability of life told through the fundamental laws that govern it.

Professor Brian Cox explains how the astonishing inventiveness of nature came about and illuminates some of the fundamental principles of physics, chemistry and the biological sciences in this compilation of films specially edited for schools.

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