Science Talk

Evolution takes millions of years, except when it doesn’t. Science Communications Officer Graham Shaw considers the story of Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands – a fascinating example of evolution in action, and the forces that also help cancer evade treatment.

To celebrate Darwin Day, we invited Professor Andrew Read from Pennsylvania State University to talk to us about why cancer researchers should care about the founder of evolutionary biology, and why his 150-year old findings might just be the most important weapon we have to defeat cancer.