Wonders of Life

12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Saturday 16 November
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Expanding Universe

Season 1 Episode 2 of 5

Professor Brian Cox travels across America encountering a diverse range of creatures that reveal how the senses evolved. In Kentucky, he explains how microscopic single-celled organism the paramecium can orientate itself through touch alone, and that catfish build a picture of their murky river environment through the taste buds that cover their bodies. Investigating the eyes of octopuses, Brian finds a link between the ability to process sensory data and intelligence, which may be evidence that humans evolved large brains in order to make sense of what they could see

Wonders of Life airs on BBC Two Wales HD at 12:30 PM, Saturday 16 November. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Brian Cox
Presenter
James Van der Pool
Series Producer
Michael Lachmann
Director