Jules Howard - Infinite Life

Name: Jules Howard - Infinite Life
Start: 2025-02-13T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-13T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's

Schedule

Thu Feb 13 2025 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's | Belfast, NI

A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
Join zoologist Jules Howard as he explores the fascinating evolution of the animal egg, the unsung hero of survival and evolution. Based on his book Infinite Life, Howard reveals the egg’s crucial role in the development of life on Earth across eras.
Whether belonging to birds, insects, mammals or millipedes, animal eggs are objects that have been shaped by their ecology, forged by mass extinctions and honed by natural selection to near-perfection. Finally, the epic story of their role in the tapestry of life can be told.
About
Jules Howard is a zoological correspondent, science writer and broadcaster, whose recent book, Wonderdog, won the 2022 Barker Book Prize for non-fiction. He writes on a host of topics relating to zoology, ecology and wildlife conservation and appears regularly in BBC Science Focus magazine and on radio and TV, including BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Nature Table and The Ultimate Choice.