Timothy Walker reveals how the work of Carl Linnaeus, Phillip Miller and John Ray unlocked the mysteries of the plant ki...
The extraordinary story of how the human species, Homo sapiens, first emerged, where the discoveries of recent years are revolutionising the under...
Following early Homo sapiens's ancestors as they step out of Africa and venture into the wider world, heading into areas inhabited by other human...
Timothy Walker looks at how pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a ...
Shocking new insights into the demise of modern humans' sister species, the Neanderthals, Homo sapiens's possible role in their downfall and ...
From Galileo to Einstein, from Faraday to Mendel: modern scientists try to recreate the seminal experiment...
During the height of the Ice Age, one of the coldest times humanity has ever known, Homo sapiens steps into the last habitable continents...
Around 12,000 years ago, as the Ice Age finally thawed, humanity made a dramatic shift - abandoning nomadic life for permanent settlements.
It seems tiny changes within the gene six million years ago mutated the hotspots on our ancestors' chromosomes and began driving two species ou...
How did evolution take us from single cells to complex creatures?
25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the larges...
Last in the series follows a herd of mammoths as they make their way south for winter, running a gauntlet of ice-age hunters including ...
The series following on from Walking with Dinosaurs. begins 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, pre...
We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by sabre...
This episode follows the progress of a Smilodon called Half Tooth. Smilodon was the largest of all the sabre tooth cats which roamed South ...
Norman Borlaug used selective breeding techniques to improve wheat production in Mexic...
A look behind the scenes at the making of the series on prehistoric mammals. TV special effects show how Man's dextrous hands & expre...
Timothy Walker explores the beginnings of the classification of plants.
Thomas Fairchild was the first to artificially cross two plant species and produce a new hybrid plant. This brought him i...
Timothy Walker looks at how Carl Linnaeus came up with his new naming system for plant species, and how it set the ...
The incredible story of how mammals took over from the dinosaurs as the largest, fastest and fiercest creatures on Earth.
Just as our genomes hang on to the good things, we readily abandon genes that are no longer of any use.
Timothy Walker looks at John Ray's discovery of variation, and how it formed the basis of our understanding of pl...
How pioneer botanists opened the door to a new branch of science - plant genetics.
From a basic fourfold pattern, a stunning variety of life was free to evolve.
Nikolai Vavilov’s work crossing plant varieties led him to establish the first seed bank.
36 million years ago mammals ruled the world. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals can be found.
Timothy Walker explores how Darwin's Theory of Evolution influenced 19th century botanists' understanding of how an...
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