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This three part film, which features contributions from Dr Nessa Carey and Dr Guy Sutton, looks at recent developments in the field of epigenetics, in order to demonstrate that the way genes work is in fact...
A balanced look at the degree to which science can alter our genetic makeup. There is a danger that simplistic thinking could assume that there is a gene for something like homosexuality, whereas science is...
A television series in which archaeologist Neil Oliver follows the biggest ever survey of the genetic make-up of the British people. The result is a kind of DNA map of Britain - a genetic Domesday Book -...
A contemporary television retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein with a fresh new twist, as literature’s most infamous creator, Dr Victor Frankenstein, is re-born in the 21st...
A 3-part documentary series chronicling the shifts in the idea of ‘race’ and the history of racism in Europe, The Americas, Australasia and Asia. The films show how ideas of racial difference have...
This film, produced at the brain development laboratory at Oregon University, explores the fascinating interplay of genetic predispositions and circumstance after birth in the development of the brain and...
Scientists are unravelling the mechanisms that dictate how the brain and body regulate weight. In four presentations from the HHMI Holiday Lectures in Science 200 series, Dr. Ronald M. Evans and Dr. Jeffrey...
Series looking at how the Third Reich adapted the tenets of science to its own ends. Narrated by Sebastian Faulks. 07/04: The Good German:
Evolution is the gradual change that can be seen in a population’s genetic composition, from one generation to the next. The programme covers the three main mechanisms of evolution - genetic drift,...
A programme in 3 parts. As our knowledge of the human genome increases, so does press speculation about the influence that genes may have on our lives and behaviour. Is there a gene for mathematical ability...
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