Here and now

• All in the head; what gives us our oddly-shaped brain?
• How touching noses sheds light on what we see
• Coming up for air
• Heated eyes give swordfish deep-sea ‘night vision’
• Making waves; how moving our arms as we talk signals our ‘inner fish’
• Blind evolution gives eyeless fish sleepless nights
• What the fish have to say about how we found a voice
• The reptile that almost became a fish
• Bats; hunters that see in sound
• Elephants’ aquatic ancestors; just below the surface
• Learning to sing under water

Near horizons

• Feeling the fear: the ecology of our most basic emotion
• Seeing red: for happy faces, or snakes in the grass?
• How did our stable body temperatures evolve?
• On the tip of my tongue
• Putting things into words
• Gut feelings; are microbes in your intestines dictating your mood?
• Telling Tales
• What's so different about human speech?
• Riddles in code; is there a gene for language?
• Upon reflection; what can we really see in mirror neurons?

Far horizons

• More than meets the eye; what is ‘seeing’?
• Love in a time of Prozac; how did our emotions evolve?
• What is language?
• A sense of protection: is the immune system an extension of our minds?

Q&A

• Is my dog conscious?
• Can you make a brain the size of a human neuron?
• Could your brain be five times bigger?
• Do insects copulate with flowers?
• Do birds have orgasms?
• Are there Martians?
• Can insects use tools?
• Do animals use cosmetics?
• Are dung-beetles astronomers?
• Do animals ever go to hospital?
• Do whales enjoy cocktail parties?
• Can a fly ride a bicycle?
• Can you fly using a comb?
• Are dead animals ever alive?
• Can sponges see?
• Can kangaroos fly?
• Can snakes glide?
• Are crocodiles world travellers?
• Can you starve at a banquet?
• Can mushrooms hunt?
• Can flies get drunk?
• Are sponges dangerous?
• Can you reinvent a sabre tooth?
• Can you live on only water?
• You can farm fish, but can fish farm?
• Are ants shepherds?
• Do plants need sunlight?
• Are there aquatic flowers?
• Are there extraterrestrials?
• Are plants warm-blooded?
• Can life survive in boiling water?
• Do florists stock fungi?
• Are clouds alive?
• Can you have blue blood?
• Can dandruff be green?
• Can an ant turn into a berry?
• Are there terrestrial mammals in New Zealand?
• Can an animal turn itself into an amoeba?
• Is the ichneumon beautiful?
• Can humans interbreed with other species?
• Can you see heat?
• Are humans unique?

Pioneers

• Louis Agassiz
• Mary Anning
• Agnes Arber
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Charles Darwin
• Michael Faraday
• Ronald A. Fisher
• John Frere
• J.B.S. Haldane
• Dorothy Hodgkin
• James Hutton
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Charles Lyell
• Barbara McClintock
• Gregor Mendel
• Richard Owen
• Louis Pasteur
• Adam Sedgwick
• George Gaylord Simpson
• D’Arcy Thompson
• Nikolai Vavilov
• Alfred Wegener

Videos

• Sir David Attenborough
• Nicky Clayton, University of Cambridge
• Simon Conway Morris, University of Cambridge
• Robert Foley, University of Cambridge
• Anjali Goswami, University College London
• Peter Grubb, University of Cambridge
• Elizabeth Harper, University of Cambridge
• Michael Hendy, University of Otago
• Rebecca Kilner, University of Cambridge
• Peter Kjærgaard, Natural History Museum of Denmark
• Eugene Koonin, NCBI
• Carenza Lewis, University of Lincoln
• Jonathan Losos, Harvard University
• Ard Louis, University of Oxford
• Nikku Madhusudhan, University of Cambridge
• L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
• Mark Maslin, University College London
• George McGhee, Rutgers University
• Josh Mylne, University of Western Australia
• Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
• Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge
• Walter Salzburger, University of Basel
• Anders Sandberg, University of Oxford
• Eörs Szathmáry, Eötvös Loránd University
• Geerat Vermeij, University of California, Davis
• Matthew Wills, University of Bath
• Richard Wrangham, Harvard University