The Science of Being Human

But evolution is not a process of increasing complexity, nor any other measure of superiority you can find.

Our genus Homo contains just one species at the moment, and that’s us

none of us is an island and we all live out our lives surrounded by other humans.

and to my mind there is nothing more fascinating than the science of being human.

he system was invented back in 1735 by one of the great scientists of the eighteenth century, a Swedish naturalist called Carl Linnaeus

the humble and dull-looking lymphocytes turned out to be at the heart of the system. Not only that, there are three distinct flavours of lymphocyte: the B-cells make antibodies, the T-cells identify foreign agents in our bodies and the natural killer cells seek out and destroy our own cells that have become infected with viruses.

The Science of Everyday Life
The Science of Food

Evolution is blind, has no agenda and makes no choices. It is a random walk towards something that ends up being fit for purpose at the particular time and place.

none of us is an island and we all live out our lives surrounded by other humans.

Then, between 1991 and 2005 a series of extraordinary fossils were found in a cave that lies halfway between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, in Dmanisi in Georgia.