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A Good Science Read

A Good Science Read: Evolution - from Fossils to Finches

Professor Paul Smith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould and The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner.
Alumni Weekend

Darwin's Fish: Evolutionary controversies in the fossil record

See how modern analyses of the fossil record, genetics and development provide a new understanding of flatfish evolution, and how this bears on both the great flatfish controversy and the rate and nature of evolutionary change more broadly.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Darwin and Friends

Professor Robin Dunbar explores if there is a limit to the number of friends we can keep track of and explains the origin of "Dunbar's Number".
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Slime Moulds to run the railways?

Should we let slime moulds run our railways? Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway networks designed by people, despite having no central control over what they build.
Darwin 200

Darwin 200: Dawkins and Harries

Richard Dawkins and former Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries recreate the famous Oxford evolution debate of 1860.

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