Michael Faraday (1791-1867) stands out as one of the most influential of scientists. His career began as a chemist but…
Barbara McClintock was an American geneticist. Her discovery of transposons revolutionised our understanding of genetics. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1983.
What enables us to speak? How did the sounds we use for language become so rich and complex? And what can studies of other vocal animals tell us about how we first learned to produce these sounds?
