Gillian and Associate Professor Mark Roberts tackle big questions, including the nature vs nurture? Mark shares insights from research into bananas and microbes, and much more, to make this a hopeful and fascinating episode where they explore:
- What genes are and how they influence who we are.
- The discovery of genes and history of genetic study
- Genes being like an on-off switch in simple terms.
- Genes, illness and disease.
- Genes help us survive in our context.
- What Mark wants us all to know about genetics.
- How the tiniest detail can tell us about how the world works.
