BBC.英国皇家科学院圣诞讲座.2018.我是谁
Christmas lecturer Prof Alice Roberts, and Genetics Society guest lecturer
Prof Aoife McLysaght, will bring you the CHRISTMAS LECTURES on 26, 27 and 28
December at 8pm on BBC4.
1. Where Do I Come From?
2. What Makes Me Human?
3. What Makes Me, Me?
You share 99.4% of your genes with your neighbour, 98.7% with a chimp, and
even 44% with a fruit fly - yet you are also entirely unique - there is nobody
else quite like you. In this year’s CHRISTMAS LECTURES, Professor Alice
Roberts, and genetics expert Aoife McLysaght, take us on a journey to answer
this most fundamental question: Who Am I?
We humans tend to view ourselves as separate from the natural world, a special
creation even, but we’re far more closely related to the rest of the animal
kingdom than you might imagine. From how our limbs evolved from fins, to the
colour of our eyes, Alice and Aoife investigate our fascinating evolutionary
story to reveal how we became who we are today.
In lecture one we explore our animal family, meeting our distant cousins -
from fish to fruit flies - unearthing clues to our evolutionary past and
revealing surprising similarities as we discover our true place in the tree of
life.
Lecture two covers the story of our recent evolution from early two-legged
hominins to modern humans - revealing how a humble African ape became a
successful global species. Alice and Aoife uncover the story of our journey
out of Africa as we spread across the globe, and ask what sets us apart from
the other, now extinct, hominin species.
And in lecture three, we see how the interplay between genetic variation and
the environment makes us all different - even identical twins. We’ll
interrogate emerging genetic technologies - from fixing gene errors to
personalised medicine - and ask how far we should go with genetic testing.
In all the 2018 CHRISTMAS LECTURES will bring our evolutionary story to life,
taking viewers on an immersive voyage through our shared evolutionary past and
asking challenging ethical questions about what the future holds.
This is the story of us - our past and our future - in all its deep-rooted,
diverse, and surprising glory.
圣诞讲座（或称耶诞讲座）指英国皇家科学院在伦敦自1825年以来所的办的系列讲座，向大众介绍科学新知为名，而以易懂且富娱乐性为其特色。
2018年圣诞讲座《我从哪里来》将由伯明翰大学生物人类学家、演化生物学家爱丽丝*罗伯茨主讲，共分三集。
第1集：我是谁
第2集：何以为人
第3集：与众不同的我
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