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Brian Cox and Robin Ince host an irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes.

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The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 28: The Scale of Life (or were dinosaurs just too big?)

The Scale of Life (or were dinosaurs just too big?)

Series 28

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Brian Cox and Robin Ince discover why size really matters if you want to avoid extinction.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Dave Gorman, Susie Maidment and Tori Herridge as they pitch big creatures v small creatures in the battle for survival.

Brian and Robin are joined by palaeontologist Dr Susie Maidment, evolutionary biologist Dr Tori Herridge and comedian Dave Gorman to pitch giant creatures against tiny creatures in their bid to avoid extinction. They explore the scale of life and ask why some organisms are large and some small and what the optimum size for successful survival is. From the prokaryotic cell to the grandest dinosaur, how does the modern synthesis explain the huge variation in scale, form and function? What are the advantages and disadvantages to being huge like the dinosaurs, or was it their size that really did them in, in the end?

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The Infinite Monkey Cage: Series 28

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