Brian Cox: “Bigger means longer life-span”

Jul 03, 2012, 01:40 PM

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Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince with guests Andy Hamilton and Mark Miodownik discuss whether size really does matter in the animal kingdom. They discover that the bigger the mammal the longer its life-span will be, with all having an average of 1.5 billion heart-beats in a life time.

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