5: A Great Gamble | Human

5: A Great Gamble | Human

Biology | BBC Two | 2025 | 58'58''

Around 12,000 years ago, as the Ice Age finally thawed, humanity made a dramatic shift - abandoning nomadic life for permanent settlements.

4: Discovering the Americas | Human

4: Discovering the Americas | Human

Biology | BBC Two | 2025 | 58'59''

During the height of the Ice Age, one of the coldest times humanity has ever known, Homo sapiens steps into the last habitable continents...

3: Last Humans Standing | Human

3: Last Humans Standing | Human

Biology | BBC Two | 2025 | 58'54''

Shocking new insights into the demise of modern humans' sister species, the Neanderthals, Homo sapiens's possible role in their downfall and ...

2: Into the Unknown | Human

2: Into the Unknown | Human

Biology | BBC Two | 2025 | 59'07''

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...

1: The First of Us | Human

1: The First of Us | Human

Biology | BBC Two | 2025 | 59'14''

The extraordinary story of how the human species, Homo sapiens, first emerged, where the discoveries of recent years are revolutionising the under...

3: Mendel and the Pea | The Six Experiments That Changed The World

3: Mendel and the Pea | The Six Experiments That Changed The World

Biology | Channel 4 | 2000 | 24'12''

From Galileo to Einstein, from Faraday to Mendel: modern scientists try to recreate the seminal experiment...

Selective breeding and the ‘Green Revolution’ | Botany: A Blooming History

Selective breeding and the ‘Green Revolution’ | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 5'30''

Norman Borlaug used selective breeding techniques to improve wheat production in Mexic...

3: Hidden World | Botany: A Blooming History

3: Hidden World | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 59'01''

Timothy Walker looks at how pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a ...

1: A Confusion of Names | Botany: A Blooming History

1: A Confusion of Names | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 59'02''

Timothy Walker reveals how the work of Carl Linnaeus, Phillip Miller and John Ray unlocked the mysteries of the plant ki...

New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'11''

The series following on from Walking with Dinosaurs. begins 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, pre...

Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'16''

25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the larges...

Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'05''

36 million years ago mammals ruled the world. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals can be found.

Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'01''

This episode follows the progress of a Smilodon called Half Tooth. Smilodon was the largest of all the sabre tooth cats which roamed South ...

Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 29'02''

We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by sabre...

Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 28'59''

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 Beasts Within | Walking with Beasts

The Beasts Within | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 49'15''

A look behind the scenes at the making of the series on prehistoric mammals. TV special effects show how Man's dextrous hands & expre...

Triumph of the Beasts | Walking with Beasts

Triumph of the Beasts | Walking with Beasts

Ancient Civilizations | BBC One | 2001 | 49'13''

The incredible story of how mammals took over from the dinosaurs as the largest, fastest and fiercest creatures on Earth.

Vavilov and the first seed banks | Botany: A Blooming History

Vavilov and the first seed banks | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 3'16''

Nikolai Vavilov’s work crossing plant varieties led him to establish the first seed bank.

Chimps and us | The Gene Code

Chimps and us | The Gene Code

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 5'14''

It seems tiny changes within the gene six million years ago mutated the hotspots on our ancestors' chromosomes and began driving two species ou...

Use it or lose it | The Gene Code

Use it or lose it | The Gene Code

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 9'31''

Just as our genomes hang on to the good things, we readily abandon genes that are no longer of any use.

Variety of Life | The Gene Code

Variety of Life | The Gene Code

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 4'55''

From a basic fourfold pattern, a stunning variety of life was free to evolve.

Dizzying leaps | The Gene Code

Dizzying leaps | The Gene Code

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 7'15''

How did evolution take us from single cells to complex creatures?

Why can we classify species? | Botany: A Blooming History

Why can we classify species? | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 2'49''

Timothy Walker explores how Darwin's Theory of Evolution influenced 19th century botanists' understanding of how an...

The first hybrid plant | Botany: A Blooming History

The first hybrid plant | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 1'48''

Thomas Fairchild was the first to artificially cross two plant species and produce a new hybrid plant. This brought him i...

The standardisation of names | Botany: A Blooming History

The standardisation of names | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 3'45''

Timothy Walker looks at how Carl Linnaeus came up with his new naming system for plant species, and how it set the ...

The first classification of plants | Botany: A Blooming History

The first classification of plants | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 1'31''

Timothy Walker explores the beginnings of the classification of plants.

Variation and defining species | Botany: A Blooming History

Variation and defining species | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 2'14''

Timothy Walker looks at John Ray's discovery of variation, and how it formed the basis of our understanding of pl...

Variation, inheritance and the work of Mendel | Botany: A Blooming History

Variation, inheritance and the work of Mendel | Botany: A Blooming History

Biology | BBC Four | 2011 | 4'52''

How pioneer botanists opened the door to a new branch of science - plant genetics.
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