Metamorphosis: The Science of Change

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

00:02:56 a woman changed into a tree.

00:05:47 they have to grow a new skeleton that's a bit bigger

00:07:48 You take it away and then you start to metamorphose.

00:10:55 that he conceived the idea of reincarnation.

00:13:09 something more important about metamorphosis

00:16:04 what this creature will become can be seen growing inside it.'

00:18:49 It does have that slight feeling of the alien popping out from inside.

00:20:47 until the larva dies.

00:23:15 Is it any wonder that metamorphosis holds such intrigue for us?'

00:25:47 all that fluid is expelled and the lungs suddenly expand.

00:27:40 I'm amazed they don't cry more than they do!

00:30:43 and what changes are undertaken that affect us.

00:33:31 is that our attitude towards change is deeply ambivalent.

00:36:17 about what it's going to be like in the terrestrial environment.

00:38:51 and go through metamorphosis quicker."

00:40:47 - But the tadpole decisions... - Are much less understood.

00:43:40 to this state, the gregarious phase that forms swarms.

00:45:59 Can they, can they go back?

00:48:24 of being exposed to stimuli that will make them change into the gregarious phase.

00:50:36 to include this remarkable transformation of the locust

00:53:22 'And this is what Kafka was pointing to in his story.

00:56:14 It isn't enacted organically through our bodies.

04:00:00 of grasshopper in the world