Wonders of Life TV Listings

Wonders of Life TV listings this week

Wonders of Life is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):

• Mon 18

  3:30 pm ends 4:30 pm

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  What Is Life? — Wonders of Life

  Season 1 · Episode 1

  Professor Brian Cox travels around the world to investigate whether the emergence of life was an inevitable consequence of the physical laws that govern the universe. On the edge of Taal Volcano lake in the Philippines, he demonstrates how the first spark of life may have arisen from the chemical changes caused when heat from the inner Earth forced its way to the surface. The physicist also swims with millions of golden jellyfish, which have algae embedded in their structures that draw energy from the sun and nourish the creatures

  More details for Wonders of Life, Mon 18, 3:30 pm
• Tue 19

  3:30 pm ends 4:30 pm

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  Expanding Universe — Wonders of Life

  Season 1 · Episode 2

  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

  More details for Wonders of Life, Tue 19, 3:30 pm