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Sir JOHN SULSTON – Nobel Prize-winning scientist

Stephen Sackur speaks to Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist. Can science help the human species change its ways?

Science is constantly changing and deepening our understanding of ourselves and our planet. So is it time to give scientists a more prominent role in the debate about humanity's strategic choices; economic, political and environmental?

HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist who has led a Royal Society study into the global impact of population growth two decades on from the Rio Earth Summit.

Can science help the human species change its ways?

23 minutes

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Tue 1 May 2012 01:05GMT
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