Darwin Day Lecture 2011: Mutants - And What To Do About Them

Humans are afflicted by a continual storm of mutations. Individually rare, these mutations are collectively responsible for thousands of genetic disorders. Now that the cost of sequencing a human genome has dropped to less than the price of a new car, we can start to defend ourselves against them. In this lecture, Armand Marie Leroi outlines how.

Our lecturer Armand Leroi is Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London, author of Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body for which he was awarded the Guardian First Book Award in 2004. He presented the documentaries Human Mutants, Alien Worlds, and What Makes Us Human.

Chaired by Richard Dawkins.