The Royal Institution invited evolutionary molecular biologist and UC Santa Cruz professor Beth Shapiro to discuss just how deep our human influence on nature truly is—so deep, in fact, that we’ve genetically modified our surroundings thousands of years before we ever managed to do it in a lab.
Related Posts
Take a break from your screen and look at plants − botanizing is a great way to engage with life around you
You may be surprised by what’s growing on a familiar trail. Benjamin Goulet-Scott, CC BY-ND Jacob S. Suissa,…
Nature Bites: The Pitcher Plant
Sir David Attenborough takes us viewers on a tour of some of nature’s oddest plants: the pitcher plants,…
Why Physicists Built an Experiment the Size of a Sea
Deep beneath the Mediterranean, a massive neutrino detector has captured a particle so energetic it could rewrite our fundamental understanding of the cosmos.
First wind, then rain. Next come the mozzies – here’s how to reduce your risk of bites and infections
Cameron Webb, University of Sydney While some parts of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales are still…