The Darwin Lectures

Professor Lloyd Spencer Davis, University of Otago. In the last 2000 years there has been one idea, above all else, that has altered the way we view the world and our place in it. That idea is… Read more Audio

Professor Paul Rainey FRSNZ, Massey University. Professor Rainey paints a picture of life's evolution from the perspective of major evolutionary transitions, including that from solitary organisms to… Read more Audio

Professor David Penny CNZM FRSNZ, Research Director, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University. Can we find anything in biology that is not understandable, or not… Read more Audio

Professor Alan Cooper, Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide. How should we interpret what the fossil record tells us about evolution - both in general, and with… Read more Audio

Professor Russell Gray, The University of Auckland. Attempts to explain human behaviour in evolutionary terms have a mixed history. Today, crude social Darwinian and socio-biological explanations are… Read more Audio