This year, she is giving the Royal Institution Christmas lectures looking at how evolution has shaped our bodies to communicate with each other. When and how were you asked to do the Royal Institution Christmas lectures? They changed what I thought about science, because I was used to science at school being a body of knowledge you were told about. 'Emojis enhance human interactions' argues Royal Institution lecturer Read moreWhy are women’s voices getting lower in the west but higher in Japan? The Royal Institution Christmas lectures with Sophie Scott will be broadcast at 8pm on 26, 27 and 28 December on BBC Four

Source: The Guardian December 24, 2017 09:00 UTC