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College of Arts and Humanities
A Research Institute for Arts and Humanities Event
This event is part of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities Public Lectures and Events series
SpeakerAdam Rutherford
Speaker's BiographyDr. Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster.
On radio, he is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship science programme, Inside Science, as well as many documentaries, on the inheritance of intelligence, on MMR and autism, human evolution, astronomy and art, science and cinema, scientific fraud, and the evolution of sex.
On television, his latest series, The Beauty of Anatomy, is on BBC4 in August 2014, on the role of the human dissection in art. Adam also presented the award-winning Horizon: Playing God (BBC2, Jan 2012);The Gene Code (BBC4, Apr 2011); and the award-winning The Cell (BBC4, Sept 2009).
Adam is a movie geek, and has been scientific advisor to Björk’s movie Biophilia Live, and worked on World War Z, The Secret Service (2014) and Ex Machina (2015).
His critically acclaimed first book, Creation – on the origin and future of life - was published in 2013, and was nominated for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. He is currently writing his second, and third.
Adam has a PhD in Genetics, a degree in evolutionary biology, is an honorary Research Fellow at UCL, and is a former Editor at the journal Nature.
From: 18 Oct 2018, 7:30 p.m.To: 18 Oct 2018, 9 p.m.
Location: Great Hall, Bay Campus
Swansea University Centenary Lecture Series
Curated and introduced by Professor in Creativity, Owen Sheers
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but are we really any more special than other animals? Acclaimed science writer and presenter of Radio 4’s Inside Science Adam Rutherford introduces his latest work, a mythbusting tour of life on Earth that explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: we are not the only species that communicates, that makes tools, that utilises fire, or that has sex for reasons other than to make new versions of ourselves.
Adam’s talk will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.
‘You’ll be spellbound’ PROF BRIAN COX
Sponsored by Swansea Building Society.
Books available to purchase from Cover to Cover Bookshop
Contact: Great Hall (Email: Greathallboxoffice@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792 604900 / 604999
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