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WONDERS oF LIFE
SERIES 1 - 2. EXPANDING UNIVERSE
BBC2, BBC HD - Sunday Sunday 3rd Feb 9pm - 10pm
Repeat: BBC2 (not Northern Ireland) Tue 5 Feb 11:20pm

2/5. Professor Brian Cox travels across America encountering a diverse range of creatures that reveal how the senses evolved. In Kentucky, he explains how microscopic single-celled organism the paramecium can orientate itself through touch alone, and that catfish build a picture of their murky river environment through the taste buds that cover their bodies. Investigating the eyes of octopuses, Brian finds a link between the ability to process sensory data and intelligence, which may be evidence that humans evolved large brains in order to make sense of what they could see.
Radiotimes

Brian Cox: "Science should be like The X Factor"
"I’d always said that science is too important not to be part of popular culture... it should be talked about... it should be celebrated” Radiotimes