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Start the Week: Evolution and Extinction

Evolution and Extinction

01/12/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Evolution and Extinction

Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the secrets of evolution and threats of extinction.

Tom Sutcliffe with Jules Pretty on extinction, Andreas Wagner on evolution's greatest puzzle, Ruth Padel on learning from animals and Chris Stringer on lost human species.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses evolution and extinction with Jules Pretty, who's been travelling to meet "enduring people in vanishing lands" and is concerned about their future; with Andreas Wagner on solving what he calls evolution's greatest puzzle - how can random mutations over a mere 3.8 billion years solely be responsible for eyeballs; poet Ruth Padel on what we can learn from animals and Chris Stringer who's been looking at ancient human occupation of Britain and how homo sapiens may have driven other humans to extinction.

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