ZSL Writers' Talks: Randal Keynes On Darwin’s Apes

ZSL conservation scientists and keepers team up with leading writers to talk about the animals in ZSL London Zoo. Alongside the animals, the writers speak imaginatively about their responses to them and ZSL’s experts talk about their ecology and conservation.

Randal Keynes:

Randal Keynes OBE, FLS is a British conservationist, author, scholar and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. His book Annie's Box (2001) explored the relationship between Darwin and his daughter whose tragic early death deeply affected his thinking. The book was retitled Creation for the 2009 film based on it, starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin. One high point in the film is Darwin's historic encounter with a young orangutan in London Zoo: from which he found he could see clearly how humans might share a common ancestry with the great apes.

Featuring David Field: ZSL Zoological Director and Chair of British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums.