The film features Professor Lynn Margulis who was Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford in 2009. Lynn was a pioneer of symbiogenesis, including the bacterial origin of internal cell organelles like mitochondria and plastids. We can’t understand some of the major transitions in evolution without Margulis’s discoveries. The implications for the medical sciences in general are profound. Many world-leading scientists and others are interviewed in the film, including Oxford scientists.

The screening will be followed by a discussion led by filmmaker John Feldman and Denis Noble, author of The Music of Life. Their discussion will focus on the “third way” of evolution which offers pioneering scientific alternatives to Neo-Darwinism and Creationism. In 2009 while Margulis was a visiting professor at Oxford, she engaged in a now famous debate with Richard Dawkins recorded by Voices from Oxford, and which is chronicled in the film.