The Annual Royal Society of Biology lecture series

Jointly organised by the School of Biological Sciences and the Royal Society of Biology
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Sea turtles eating a jellyfish in the ocean 2019: Marine turtles and climate change
 Understanding how climate change will impact species and ecosystems is critical for the conservation and management of our natural environment.

Wildflowers in meadow - close up of wild British flowers in field of grass including poppy, cornflower and daisy blooms 2018: The most interesting wildlife you haven't noticed yet
 Introducing you to a few of the less-obvious inhabitants of your garden.

DNA double helix strand 2017: Gene therapy: fact and fiction
 How gene therapy has been portrayed in Hollywood films, and how the reality of gene therapy, today, is more amazing and promising than fiction.

Palaeo diet items 2016: Dinner with Darwin: how our food evolved and influenced our evolution.
 The ways in which we evolved from vegetarian ancestor species, how and when we became omnivorous and how this change in diet impacted human evolution.

Collage of many different human faces. Courtesy of Shutterstock 2015: What's in a face? The biology of attractiveness
 The ways in which humans determine someone else’s health, fitness and resilience to illness based on facial judgements.