Secrets of the Brain
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- Episode
- Episode One
- Broadcast Info
- 2025 (59 mins)
- Description
- Theoretical physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili goes on a journey through 600 million years of evolution to uncover how the human brain, the most complex structure known in the universe, came to exist. With some 100 billion neurons and over 100 trillion connections - more than all the stars in the Milky Way - the human brain is one of nature’s greatest achievements. But how did something so incredibly sophisticated evolve from its simple beginnings?
- Genre
- Science; Research; Biology
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The Open University, "Secrets of the Brain". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/254391 (Accessed 09 Mar 2026)