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BBC Radio 4 presents the recording of
THE GREAT DEBATES
Haller v Wolff: preformation or epigenesis?
You can join our audience as Allan Little invites some of today's leading historians and scientists to take sides in a passionately disputed controversy from the history of science. Albrecht von Haller and Caspar Wolff argued about the development of life in the days when the microscope was at the cutting edge of technology. Come and find out how the debate has moved on, and how it keeps raising questions in our own age of the Genome.
Presenter: Allan Little (BBC Paris Correspondent)
Contributors: Clara Pinto-Correia (Professor of Biology at the Lusophone University, Lisbon) and Professor John Durant (Chief Executive of science museum 'At-Bristol')
Date: Monday 15th November
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, 24 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 1AD.
Times: Doors open – 6.00pm
Doors close – 6.20pm
Recording – 6.30 to 7.45pm
If you would like any tickets please ring 0161 244 3919.
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