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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.

Ecology - Chapter 10

Learn the key concepts in ecology and what makes populations change over time, with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford

Plants - Chapter 9

Plants are awesome, with photosynthesis being the most disruptive invention ever! Join Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford to understand why

Vertebrates - Chapter 8

Take a guided tour of the biology and ancestry of the vertebrates with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford

Animals - Chapter 7

Take a whistle-stop tour of the Animal Kingdom with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford

Bacteria - Chapter 5

Learn about the microbiome, the amazing flexibility of bacteria, and why we have an antibiotic resistance crisis with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford

Evolution - Chapter 2

Learn the theory of evolution in a simpler, more intuitive way than ever before with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford

Information in Cells - Chapter 1

Learn how cells use the information in DNA and the key components that make up a cell, with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford

Nutritional Anthropology

Stanley Ulijaszek discusses human dietary evolution, dietary flexibility and present day undernutrition and infection

How planetary iron shaped life on Earth

Two researchers working in very different areas; planetary formation and immunity. At a chance meeting they realised they had a shared interest, iron. Their new cross-disciplinary paper unravels the importance of iron availability in the evolution of life

Biodiversity on the rocks: joining the dots between animate and inanimate

This podcast explores some of the countless relationships between biology, biodiversity, and geology, past and present.

Episode 5 – Babylon: Natural Theology versus Scientific Naturalism

When Museum opened in 1860, a new secular approach to science was on the rise. In the final episode of Temple of Science we see how ‘natural theology’ responded to the challenges of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection.

The Legal Evolution of the Climate Change Regime: Past, Present, and Future

What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime?

Food insecurity of fatness: from evolutionary ecology to social science

This Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar was presented by Professor Daniel Nettle (Newcastle University) on 16 January 2019

Is female health cyclical? Evolutionary perspectives on menstruation

Alex Alvergne (Oxford) delivered this seminar on 6 March 2019 as part of the Primate Conversations seminar series

Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Kesson Magid (Department of Anthropology, University of Durham) on 7 November 2018

Life history, parental investment and health of Agta foragers

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Abigail Page (Department of Anthropology, University College London) on 14 November 2018

Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Dr Gillian Pepper (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle) on 28 November 2018

The developmental origins of health and disease: adaptation reconsidered

Ian Rickard (Durham) places the origins of the science of health and disease within a framework of evolutionary theory and a medical anthropology perspective (18 January 2016)

Obstructed labour: the classic obstetric dilemma and beyond

Emma Pomeroy (Cambridge) places obstructed labour within an evolutionary perspective. A medical anthropology seminar given on 15 February 2016.

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