Milner Centre for Evolution

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Chris Packham, the naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author, whose best known for presenting Springwatch, Autumnwatch, Winterwatch, programmes about nature, neurodiversity, dinosaurs, cats, dogs and honeybees.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Volkan Cevik, whose research focuses on understanding interactions between plants and their pathogens, as well as understanding how these pathogens evolve.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Neil Brown, whose research focuses on discovering new ways to fight major fungal diseases that threaten our food security and health.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Laurence Hurst whose new book titled; The Evolution of Imperfection: The Science of Why We Aren't and Can't Be Perfect, has just been published.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Lauren Cowley whose research centres around public health and infectious diseases. She works closely with the UK Health Security Agency.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Paula Kover whose research focuses on understanding how an organism's environment affects the evolution of traits under natural selection.

Professor Turi King discusses the results of a scientific paper about the evolution of hearing, which explores the combined impact of biological and environmental factors on how our ears respond to sound. The study was the brainchild of Dr. Patricia Balaresque who got really interested in the different factors, such as our sex or environment, that might have shaped our hearing sensitivity.

This groundbreaking study, ‘Sex, and Environment Shape Cochlear Sensitivity in Human Populations Worldwide,’ is published in Scientific reports. It was led by Dr Patricia Balaresque at the Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (CRBE) in Toulouse, supported by the Eco-Anthropology unit (EA-CNRS Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle / University of Paris) and the Toulouse Institute of Research in Computer Science (IRIT-CNRS / University of Toulouse) and others.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Leslie Turner about her research on our understanding how speciation takes place.

Ahead of the Milner Centre for Evolution's Darwin Day lecture 2025, Professor Turi King spoke with Professor Ben Garrod about his career, his involvement in science communication and his passion for all things evolution.

The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Daniel Henk whose research focuses on the evolution and ecology of fungi.