Wonders of Life
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Season 1 Episode 3 of 5
Professor Brian Cox travels to southern Africa and Madagascar to examine why Earth is such a fertile place and how it sustains such a large diversity of life forms. He searches for clues by considering the chemistry of a lion and reveals that the answer lies partly in carbon, a universal building block forged by the stars that is captured and used by the living world. By following the stellar origins of the element and the universality of the laws of nature, Brian contemplates whether there could be similar life elsewhere in the cosmos
Wonders of Life airs on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD at 4:15 PM, Wednesday 13 November. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
General
Brian Cox
Presenter
James Van der Pool
Series Producer
Gideon Bradshaw
Director