Have you ever wondered why you exist?

What had to happen for you – and all life on Earth – to come into being?

What is the true answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?

Tim Coulson, Professor of Zoology at Oxford, will take us back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. From there, he will lead us step by step along the path to the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered – the staggering complexity of the modern human mind.

Covering physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, the emergence of life, evolution, consciousness and the rise of humankind, it is the history of you, me and everything – of how we all came to be. In short, it is the greatest story ever told.

‘Most scientists know only their own field. Tim Coulson is at home with science as an integrated whole’
- Richard Dawkins

PROF. TIM COULSON

Tim Coulson is Professor of Zoology and joint Head of Biology at the University of Oxford. He has worked as an academic researcher and taught biology for over three decades and has published over 200 papers in scientific journals. The Universal History of Us is his first book and will be available for purchase on the night.