Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Staying Alive: The Body in Balance: Times of our lives (1998x4)

Air date: Dec 31, 1998

In her fourth lecture, Nancy Rothwell explores how our bodies and those of animals are trained by sunlight. The human body has a clock of its own and every creature works to a rhythm controlled by its genes. Professor Nancy Rothwell explains why the iguana has a third eye and how migrating birds navigate.