01: The Mystery of Growth | Human Mutants

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

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

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

Norman Borlaug used selective breeding techniques to improve wheat production in Mexico. He produc...

The standardisation of names | Botany: A Blooming History

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

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

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

02: The Dangerous Womb | Human Mutants

*Contains graphic images and nudity* Armand Leroi explores the making of the human form in the womb,using cutting-edge genetics and em...

03: Hidden World | Botany: A Blooming History

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

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

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

03: The Meaning of Beauty | Human Mutants

*Contains graphic images and nudity* Leroi uses cutting-edge genetics and embryology to explore what it means to be normal and why ...

Chimps and us | The Gene Code

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

Dizzying leaps | The Gene Code

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

The first classification of plants | Botany: A Blooming History

Timothy Walker explores the beginnings of the classification of plants.

The first hybrid plant | Botany: A Blooming History

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

Use it or lose it | The Gene Code

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

Variation and defining species | Botany: A Blooming History

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

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

Variety of Life | The Gene Code

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

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

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

03: The Will to Win | Human Instinct

He explores the drive to succeed, looking at how different chemicals are released into the brain when we win or lose, and learning about...

01: Born To Survive | Human Instinct

A series in which Professor Robert Winston examines human instincts and patterns of behaviour. In this edition: instincts for survival i...

01: New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

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