Book talk: 'The Universal History of Us'

Speaker
Professor Tim Coulson, Professor Sir Charles Godfray
Event date
Event time
17:00 - 18:00
Venue
Oxford Martin School
34 Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BD
Venue details

Lecture Theatre (and Online)

Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

15 October 2024 (5pm-6pm)
Registration Required

Oxford Martin School & Online
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

Do you ever find yourself wondering how we came to exist? Or how humans came to call planet Earth our home?

Join Tim Coulson, Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, as he talks to Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School. They will take you back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang. From there, they will lead you through a 13.8-billion-year epic – a tale that culminates in the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered: the staggering complexity of the human mind.

Covering physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, the emergence of life, evolution, consciousness and the rise of humankind, yet structured to be understood by anyone with a child’s curiosity, this talk will take the biggest story of all and tell it simply, grippingly and, above all, entertainingly. It is the history of you, me and everything – of how we all came to be. In short, it is the greatest story ever told.

Register to join the event live in-person in Oxford.

Register to watch live online on Crowdcast.