Metamorphosis: The Science of Change

00:00:08 'Imagine you woke one day to find yourself

00:02:52 of a man being turned into a werewolf

00:05:39 These guys live in a kind of suit of armour all the time. - Yeah.

00:07:42 And it's a timing signal.

00:10:46 According to legend

00:12:50 I think one of the most interesting things for me talking to Stuart Reynolds

00:15:37 - Here you can see there is the mouth, stomach. - Right.

00:17:56 and slowly, one by one, its spines emerge.

00:20:16 This is the larva of a species of starfish called Luidia sarsi.

00:22:29 to leave its larval life behind.

00:25:00 'The most obvious type of change that occurs in the womb

00:27:09 The first 24 hours of a baby's life

00:29:30 so it would still seem strange to me

00:32:23 When the respectable Dr Jekyll takes a potion to change himself

00:35:16 Let's get these guys here.

00:37:44 It is an epic reconstruction project, of amazing complexity.

00:39:50 and they think, Well, this is really risky being here.

00:41:48 to the sort of change we are familiar with in our lives.

00:44:55 We can change its behaviour.

00:46:58 and the solitary locust are forced together

00:49:12 Unlike the metamorphosis that turns the caterpillar into a butterfly

00:51:20 And that distance between biological metamorphosis

00:54:18 to that of the caterpillar or the tadpole.'

00:56:52 But there is also a scene shortly before he dies