Event Description
Join geneticist and broadcaster, Adam Rutherford, as he takes his genetics shears and history axe in hand and pollards, prunes and chops down some of the (genealogy, family and evolution) trees we take for granted, and plants much better ones.
The tree of life is the most wondrous demonstration of evolution in all its magnificent splendour. Except it’s not a tree at all. Genealogy and family trees are the ties that bind us to our ancestors, descendants and local history. They’re not trees either. And the story of human evolution is our species’s family tree: guess what? Also not a tree. The whole of life on Earth is a tangled bank, and it can be guaranteed that in this talk you will discover your royal heritage.
Warning: contains a small bit of maths.