Human Mutants

2005

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EP1 The Mystery of Growth May 03, 2005

In this first programme, Leroi looks at how people grow and what happens when development goes wrong.

EP2 The Dangerous Womb May 04, 2005

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi explores the making of the human form in the womb, using cutting-edge genetics and embryology, and meets those who are born different from most others.

EP3 The Meaning of Beauty May 05, 2005

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi examines the processes that affect skin colour and what happens when they go wrong. Piebalds, with their patches of black and white skin, and albinos from all races demonstrate the effect of turning on and off genes that control pigmentation. South African housewife Rita Hoefling went to bed white and woke up black. Leroi also meets Mexican circus performer Jesus "Chuy" Aceves, whose face is covered in thick hair, and the most beautiful woman in the world.
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Released: 03 May 2005 Ended
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Country: United Kingdom
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Welcome to Human Mutants – the three-part series in which scientist Armand Marie Leroi explores the sometimes weird, sometimes wonderful, and always very ordinary world of the human mutant. From conjoined twins to dwarfs, giants and hairiness, Leroi explores the extraordinary variety that the human genome can throw up. His journey takes him from the person, via all manner of scientific experiments, to the minute mutated molecule that is the cause of their condition. Forgetting the weird and wonderful for a moment, Leroi has another more serious point – we all are mutants, every last one of us. If we weren't we'd all be clones of each other, a world full of identical twins, and how weird would that be? Being a mutant is what makes me, me, and you, you. It's what makes us unique, special and different.

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