York Open Lecture Programme 2000-2005 2000-01 Therese Markow Is incest unnatural? Keith Campbell Cloning on the farm John Stein The sensory basis of reading and dyslexia Tim Birkhead Promiscuity Richard Fortey Fossils 2001-02 Nancy Lane To clone or not to clone? Martin Wolfe Moving organic agriculture forward Sue Southon Should we eat foods or bits of foods? Bill Sutherland Behaviour, ecology and conservation Steven Rose Why the chicken came before the egg Chris Stinger Human origins 2002-03 Sheena Radford Protein folding and disease Sir John Sulston The human genome project Roger Pedersen Stem cells Georgina Mace Global list of endangered species: means and ends Martin Embley Genes, genomes and eukaryotic evolution Tim Hunt What is the cell cycle and how is it controlled? 2003/04 Cheryll Tickle FRS Evolution and development of the vertebrate limb Ian Gibson Science and Government Andrew Prentice The Pandemic of Obesity - how did it start and where will it end? Mel Greaves Cancer as an evolutionary disease Ken Killham Can Biotechnology be used to assess and remediate contaminated environments? 2004/0 5 Charles Godfray Co-evolution of resistance and parasitoid counter-measures Stephen Holgate The epidemic of allergy and asthma: causes and solutions Sir Richard Gardner Stem cells, therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine: a scientific perspective Sir John Gurdon Mechanisms of cell fate determination Jonathan Jones Plant disease resistance Paul Kaye From Baghdad boil to Kala azar: closing in on the silent invader.