This week historian Sandra Herbert tells how she retraced Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos in search of rock samples to prove his volcanic theories were right. Two recent expeditions to Isla Santiago (formerly James Island) show that Darwin wasn't just a ground-breaking biologist but also a pioneering theorist in igneous petrology...
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11th Aug 2009
- Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir Terry Pratchett
This week we're in conversation with Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the multi-million selling Discworld series. We find out what inspired 'The Science of Discworld 3: Darwin's Watch', get Richard Dawkins into holy orders and explore a world without Darwin...
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4th Aug 2009
- Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Brian Rosen
Darwin's first book was on coral reefs. Brian Rosen, from the Natural History Museum in London, takes up the story...
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28th Jul 2009
- Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir John Sulston
This week we're in conversation with Nobel laureate Sir John Sulston, the man behind the human genome project. He tells how he went from chemist to biologist to work on a tiny worm, C. elegans, that laid the foundations for the sequencing of the human genome.
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21st Jul 2009
- Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Ruth Padel
Poet and Darwin-descendent Ruth Padel talks about how the history books led her to write "Darwin, a life in poems", an anthology of fifteen poems charting the major events of Darwin's life. Here she talks to Chris Smith about how her life was influenced by growing up as the great great granddaughter of Darwin, and how she came to write this poetry collection recognising Darwin's bicentenary.
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16th Jul 2009
- The Rap Guide to Evolution - Darwinian Hip Hop
Award winning Canadian hip hop artist Baba Brinkman brings us his Rap Guide to Evolution, an hour of clever, witty and scientifically accurate rhymes that will have you seeing Darwin from a whole new perspective. Baba explores the history and current understanding of Darwin's theory, combining hilarious remixes of popular rap songs with clever lyrical storytelling that covers Natural Selection, Artificial Selection, Sexual Selection, Group Selection, Unity of Common Descent, and Evolutionary Psychology.
Visit Baba online here: http://www.babasword.com/
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10th Jul 2009
- The Daily Darwin - News from Friday's Festival
We tie up the Darwin Festival with predictions on global warming and the future of the human species. Plus, we find out about cultural selection and how tricky it is putting together an exhibition on science and fine art!
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9th Jul 2009
- The Daily Darwin - News from Thursday's Festival
The fourth day brings together geologists and an exploration of Darwin's early scientific forays. We also find out how we have the power to solve climate change in a generation, why we should make friends with yeast and how the Obama government will promote science research.
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8th Jul 2009
- The Daily Darwin - News from Wednesday's Festival
Day three of the festival and if you’ve ever wondered what a Darwin rap sounds like, this show is for you. We also explore Darwin’s foibles, nice scientists, first cousin marriages and evolutionary poetry.
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7th Jul 2009
- The Daily Darwin - News from Tuesday's Festival
We catch up with festival attendees and speakers on the second day of the Darwin Festival at Cambridge. Today we search for the origins of religion, meet the man who got the Human Genome Project going and speak to Sir Terry Pratchett about shaved cats...
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6th Jul 2009
- The Daily Darwin - News From the Darwin Festival
This week sees Cambridge University celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Each day our team will bring you highlights from the events and exhibitions that make up the Darwin Festival. Today Richard Dawkins explains why scientists can’t practise religion, we hear how butterflies imitate each other to survive and discover the genes that separate us from chimps!
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