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The Tree of Life: The Four Billion Year Journey to Us with Max Telford
What can the Tree of Life tell us about where we came from and how life became so diverse?
Professor Max Telford, author of the book 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle' takes us on a journey through four billion years of evolution, from the earliest life on Earth to humans, worms and the extraordinary coelacanth.
Max explains how scientists reconstruct the Tree of Life using fossils, anatomy, embryology and DNA and why evolution doesn't always mean becoming more complex. We explore convergent evolution, extinction, genetic evidence, the origins of animals, human evolution…
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