If like me, you have an interest in natural history, you will be glued to the box on Saturday to catch this programme:When is it on: Saturday 11 JuneWhat time: 7.00pm What channel: BBC4
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
David Attenborough asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before? David starts his journey in Darwin's home at Down House in Kent, where Darwin worried and puzzled over the origins of life. He goes back to his roots in Leicestershire, where he hunted for fossils as a child and where another schoolboy unearthed a significant find in the 1950s, and he revisits Cambridge University, where both he and Darwin studied and where many years later the DNA double helix was discovered, providing the foundations for genetics.Claire
You can more information relating to Darwin on the BBC Darwin season website here.
I've set a reminder for it....
I had a copy of origins of the species once, shall have to try and replace it.
It's both what you do and the way that you do it!
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922)
Thankyou MrsT for your information
Dave is away this weekend, so I will be looking at wildlife/natural history programmes to while away the hours
Regards
Kathy and Dave
I am studying a course on Darwin with the Open University at the moment, so programmes like this are brilliant, because it reminds us how important Darwin's work was and still is. It reminds any scientist to value the importance of questioning everything.
I was 9 when I first flicked though the book!
What course are you doing?
Here's the iplayer link for those that missed it :)
www.bbc.co.uk/.../Charles_Darwin_and_the_Tree_of_Life
Wow! I have only really read through twice in the last few years. It's good stuff though. The course is called Darwin and evolution and is a module of the Certificate in Contempary Science. I need to pass 6 modules to pass. I study in my spare time. Keeps the little grey cells active!