Science Focus Book Club: Further reading on plants, deep time and the world beneath our feet
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Amy is the Editorial Assistant at BBC Science Focus. Her BA degree specialised in science publishing and she has been working as a journalist since graduating in 2018. In 2020, Amy was named Editorial Assistant of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors. She looks after all things books, culture and media. Her interests range from natural history and wildlife, to women in STEM and accessibility tech.
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NatureThe wood-wide webCan trees and plants really talk to each other?
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There’s evidence that trees communicate via a vast, underground network of fungal connections – we dive in to the murky world of mycorrhizal networks.
The Human BodyaudioGaia VinceWhat part does culture play in our evolution?
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Journalist and broadcaster Gaia Vince tells us how culture evolution played a big part in Homo sapiens dominance over the other hominins.
Planet EarthgalleryMeet the scientists going to extreme lengths to study climate change
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Scientists around the world are studying everything from glaciers to deserts to find out how climate change is affecting our planet.
NatureMammal evolutionHow ancient fossils are revealing the secrets of our earliest ancestors
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Before Tyrannosaurus rex and Diplodocus roamed the planet, a group of small animals were eking out a successful existence and would one day come to dominate - here’s how a bounty of new fossils is telling us their story.
Science newsHumans grew plants in 'forest islands' of the Amazon 10,000 years ago
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Scientists believe south-western Amazonia to be the fifth area of the world where the earliest domestication of plants began.
CommentAdam Hart"Evolution is most certainly a theory, but certainly not 'just' a theory"
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Considerable confusion exists over some very fundamental aspects of evolution, compounded by the language we use to describe it.
Planet EarthEarth’s ancient geography 'directed the course of human evolution'
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In his book, Origins, astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell shows us how the Earth’s ancient geography has influenced the development of human civilisations, and how it still affects our behaviour today.
NatureaudioNeil ShubinHow do big changes in evolution happen?
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Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin explains how life made the jump from land to water and how dinosaurs took to the air.
NaturegalleryLife finds a wayWhen nature reclaims abandoned places
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What happens to a human environment when all the people leave? Nature takes it back.
Planet EarthInterviewCan planting billions of trees help tackle climate change?
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We speak to Bob Ward, the policy and communications director for the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
