Panel
This week's guests:
Professor Philip Stott
Professor Martin Siegert
Dr Barbara Mable
Home Planet this week was recorded in front of a live audience at Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh.
TOPICS
Even if humans had no effect on climate, would we still have a changing climate to deal with?
An overview of the Earth's climate change over the past few million years.
BBC News article discussing some of the aspects of adaptation to climate change.
UK Government Environment Adapting to Climate Change.
Report on an article linking human evolution to adaptation to climate change.
Have Human Beings Ceased to Evolve?
With modern medicine and better living conditions, the questioner wanted to know whether these had effectively stopped human evolution.
A timeline of Human Evolution from New Scientist.
An introduction to the mechanisms of evolution from the UK Natural History Museum.
History of modern medicine from the BBC.
What is the impact of burning peat?
The history and uses of peat from a UK Government website.
A report in New Scientist about the the impact of the massive peat fires in Indonesia.
Peat fires tracked and reviewed by NASA.
BBC article on the toxins produced by burning Scottish peat over the last few thousand years.
The famously peaty whiskies of the island of Islay.
Are newly discovered animals likely to be recently evolved?
New Scientist web site discussing many different aspects of evolution.Includes recent research, guides to the workings of evolution and briefing notes on evolution.
BBC report on the recent discovery of a new species of giant elephant shrew in Tanzania.
Information on the Vu Quang Ox, or Saola, which was a large mammal discovered within the last ten years in the forests of Vietnam.
The Australian Snubfin dolphin, a new species recently identified by DNA analysis.
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