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Luke Rendell

Helen Scales

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Nick Lane

Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Life Underwater

Life Underwater

20/04/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Life Underwater

Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Motion, Helen Scales, Nick Lane and Luke Rendell.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses life under the waves with biologists Luke Rendell and Helen Scales, poet Andrew Motion and biochemist Nick Lane.

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe explores life in the oceans. The biologist Luke Rendell studies the evolution of social learning in whales and dolphins, and seeks to define their culture beneath the waves. The seahorse is a creature with a rich mythical history and is the subject of Andrew Motion's latest poem, while the biologist Helen Scales weaves science, natural history and culture in her story of the seashell. The biochemist Nick Lane looks back over 4 billion years to explain why life is the way it is and believes energy flux is the vital factor that has driven the origin and evolution of life.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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