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Programme 1: 27 March 2009
Examines Darwin's original theory and the debates that have emerged about how his ideas have worked out in nature.
(First broadcast 30 March 2006)
Programme 2: 3 April 2009
Intelligent Design, a serious challenge to Darwin's ideas or just a restatement of religious belief.
(First broadcast 6th April 2006)
SERIES 2
Programme 1: 10 April 2009
How evolution was corrupted from a biological theory into a social theory called Social Darwinism.
Programme 2: 17 April 2009
Eugenics as pseudo-scientific war against the weak
Programme 3: 24 April 2009
The challenges to Darwinian Theory from its inception to the rise of the Genes eye view of evolution in the 1960s.
Programme 4: 01 May 2009
The re-emergence of the study of the biology of human nature
Programme 5: 08 May 2009
Evolutionary psychology and the uncomfortable examination of human nature
Programme 6: 15 May 2009
Whether evolution can tell us what it means to be human?
When: Series finished
Presenter: Damien Walshe
Producer: Peter Mooney
