Corals

In Our Time: Science

BBC

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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which informed Charles Darwin's first book, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, published in 1842. From corals, Darwin concluded that the Earth changed very slowly and was not fashioned by God. Now coral reefs, which some liken to undersea rainforests, are threatened by human activity, including fishing, pollution and climate change. With Steve Jones Senior Research Fellow in Genetics at University College London Nicola Foster Lecturer in Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth And Gareth Williams Associate Professor in Marine Biology at Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences Producer Simon Tilllotson.

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0:58.8	Hello, whenever shipwrecked sailors find sanctuary on a desert island under a coconut palm,
1:03.8	they can thank coral.
1:05.2	These tiny undersea creatures once dead,
1:08.0	leave behind stony skeletons,
1:10.0	and more corals grow on those until they form a mountain.
1:12.9	They speak above the water, the sailor on that peak.
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