What is culture? Is it uniquely human, or do animals have culture too?’‘Adventures In The Anthropocene’ in which she writes about the human-changed planet, human societies, ecosystems and our relationship with the natural world. Ruth Mace is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology in the Human Evolutionary Ecology Group at UCL, exploring human behaviour and life history as adaptations to local environments, including cultural evolution. Areas of interest include human reproductive scheduling, parental investment, human marriage, and the evolution of social institutions. This event was recorded on 26 November 2014. Watch more science videos on the Ri Channel http://richannel.org The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://richannel.org/newsletter