Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution

Podcast: The Life Scientific · BBC Radio 4

Opublikowano: 2025-06-24

As a young man, traveling in Africa, Tim Coulson - now Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford - became seriously ill with malaria and was told a second bout would probably kill him. Aged only 20, this brush with his own mortality led him to promise himself he would write a complete guide to science: life, the universe and everything. His aim was to understand the existence of all living things - no mean feat! Over the course of a colourful career, Tim's work has taken him all over the world: including researching wolves in Yellowstone...