Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
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- Episode
- Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You - Ep2
- Broadcast Info
- 2015 (58 mins)
- Description
- In Episode Two Michael Mosley tells the story of our middle weeks in the womb - when we become an individual. At 8 weeks we all appear to be the same, but in the next stage of our development an incredible series of transformations take place that make each of us unique.Our instantly recognisable faces finish forming, we become left or right handed and our skin takes on it’s colour. Inside we are developing our own bespoke immune system and as our brains are being organised our personalities start to form. We even think our feeling about sex and gender may be established long before we are born. Told through a series of surprising, moving and inspirational human stories we discover that the path to becoming ourselves is mind bogglingly complex. That there are an infinite number of possibilities that makes each of us unique.
- Genre
- Nutrition; Culture; Science; Biology
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/220141 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)