Synopsis
Michael Mosley looks at our middle weeks in the womb - when we become an individual. Produced in partnership with The Open University.
- Programme: Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
- Episode: 2: Against the Odds
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2015
- Psychology
Licence: ERA Licence required
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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