Things Can Only Get Better?
Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince look at whether the latest advances in biomedical sciences will ever lead us to the perfect body.
In the last of the current series, physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince look at the notion of perfection and whether the latest advances in the biomedical sciences could ever lead us to the perfect body. What are the limitations of science, and can we visualise a future where we transcend the human form that evolution has led us to, and would we want to?
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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