How Living Things Work

A dog decides in seconds whether to trust you. Sixteen people lived seventy-two days on a glacier on almost nothing. You lie awake after a bad day and cannot say why. The wolves came back the moment the people left.

How Living Things Work opens the systems inside bodies, minds and animals, and the people who survived when those systems were pushed to the edge: the mechanism, the trade-off evolution made, and what happens on the day it fails.

Two documentaries a week on the body, sleep and food, behaviour, pets and wild animals, and survival, told plainly, with the receipts.

Once you see the machine inside a living thing, you cannot unsee it.