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10. The Evolving Body: With Professor Randolph Nesse
9,596 views
Evolutionary physician Professor Randolph Nesse explores the idea of 'Darwin's eye', and discusses what evolution means for our bodies, our emotions and our behaviour - as well as...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
11. Darwin, Design and Christianity: With Professor John Brooke
9,982 views
John Brooke, former Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, gives his take on the exhibition 'Endless Forms', and discusses the implications of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 13 Jul 2009
13. The Predatory Ape: Sex, Simians and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe
15,946 views
Dr. Gowan Dawson discusses the intriguing representation - and sexualisation - of apes in the nineteenth century, from pickled specimens on display to an eager public to images of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 29 Jul 2009
#13 When mathematicians and environmental scientists meet: an interview with Professor Paula Harrison and Dr Martine...
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An environmental sciences-themed discussion with Professor Paula Harrison (CEH) and Dr Martine Barons (Warwick).
Collection: Living Proof - the Isaac Newton Institute podcast
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 16 Aug 2019
14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography
10,621 views
Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type'...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 3 Aug 2009
15. Between Apes and Angels: Representing the Darker Implications of Darwinism
12,824 views
Science writer Dr. Marek Kohn discusses the various artistic reactions to the bleaker side of evolutionary thinking, as presented in the exhibition 'Endless Forms'. Is nature a...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 2 Sep 2009
16. Struggle and Strikes: The 'Survival of the Fittest' in Art and Literature
8,003 views
Dame Gillian Beer discusses ideas of poverty, struggle and competition as explored in the painting 'On Strike' (1891), and examines how Darwinian notions of 'the survival of the...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 21 Sep 2009
1. Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the 'Deep Past' in the 19th-Century Imagination
22,061 views
Why was the young Darwin's fascination with geology so important for his later work? And why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? A podcast with...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Fri 5 Jun 2009
2007, An oral history of gendered analyses in archaeology.
3,134 views
Four of most eminent scholars in archaeology, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Henrietta Moore, Professor Meg Conkey from University...
Collection: Personal-Histories Project
Institution: Department of Archaeology
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
2. Darwin in Cambridge: from Christ's College to the Beagle
18,961 views
Dr. John van Wyhe, Director of Darwin Online (darwin-online.org.uk), discusses Darwin's student days at Christ's College, Cambridge in the 1820s, and investigates the young...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Thu 18 Jun 2009
3. The Roots of a Theory: How Plants Specimens Led a Young Darwin to Discovery
10,463 views
Plant specimens may seem an unlikely starting point for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection - but, as Professor John Parker investigates in this podcast, the...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 24 Jun 2009
5. Dr. Auzoux's Papier-Mâché Models
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Josh Nall, Assistant Curator at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science discusses the work of Dr. Louis Auzoux and his innovative papier-mâché, anatomical models.
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 16 Dec 2014
5. 'Flaunting It' - Sexual Selection and the Art of Courtship
13,742 views
What evolutionary purpose does beauty serve? And why does the idea of 'female mate choice' not hold true when it comes to primates and humans? From peacocks' tails to the kinds of...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Thu 2 Jul 2009
6. A Tour of 'Endless Forms': With Sir Paul Nurse
8,832 views
Nobel Prize-winning biologist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse takes a tour of the exhibition 'Endless Forms', introducing his personal highlights from a...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 6 Jul 2009
7. Evolving Philosophy: With Professor Philip Kitcher
9,726 views
Can Darwinian ideas of evolution and adaptation really explain why we are how we are? Philosopher of science Professor Philip Kitcher explores the insights - and pitfalls - that...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Tue 7 Jul 2009
8. Darwin, Hooker and the Venus Flytraps: With Sir Peter Crane
9,142 views
Sir Peter Crane, Former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, talks about the fascinating friendship between Darwin and the botanist Joseph Hooker. (An audio-only podcast...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Wed 8 Jul 2009
9. Humankind - A Troubling Future? With Lord Robert May
8,871 views
Lord Robert May, Former President of the Royal Society and UK Government Chief Advisor for Science explores the significance of Darwin and his 'unsolved problems' for the issues...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Thu 9 Jul 2009
A Beautiful Quest: The Promise and Peril of Aesthetics in Science
112 views
Research Seminar given by Dr Brandon Vaidyanathan, 26th April 2022
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Thu 5 May 2022
A Better Brain? Enhancement Examined
3,068 views
Talk given by Dr Pete Moore as part of summer course 3
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Fri 3 Feb 2012
Abraham Kuyper on Science and Religion: An introduction to his texts and contexts
67 views
Talk given by Dr Jordan Ballor
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Fri 16 Oct 2020