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Platypus Genome

by Jenny Graves
Platypus Genome
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1822 views
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The duck-billed platypus is a truly unique animal; a monotreme with almost no close relatives alive on earth. Scientists just had to take a look at that genome and here they discuss their findings.

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Whale Evolution

by Hans Thewissen
Whale Evolution
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Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 4718 views
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The marine mammals known as cetaceans originated about 50 million years ago in south Asia, but their terrestrial ancestor is something of a mystery. Hans Thewissen and colleagues now provide the missing Eocene piece of the jigsaw.

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Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

by Venki Ramakrishnan
Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
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Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1923 views
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Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 'studies of the structure and function of the ribosome', the cell's protein-making factory. In this interview, he talks about his surprise at winning the prize, and what it meant to....

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David Attenborough on Darwin – Part 1

by David Attenborough
David Attenborough on Darwin – Part 1
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Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 14 years ago | 2245 views
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British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video.

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