by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Where does altruism come from? How did it evolve in a world ruled by ‘selfish genes’? Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others on the front page of EvolutionTalk.com, or call your local bookstore and ask...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
The term ‘Survival of the Fittest’ was unleashed on the world in 1864 by Herbert Spencer when he published his work Principles of Biology. It was later picked up by Charles Darwin who used it himself in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species five...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
For Charles Darwin, the idea of sexual selection explained a lot of what he saw in the animal kingdom. He gave sexual selection just as much importance as natural selection. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others on...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
In 1986 Professor Robert Bakker, a paleontologist, published ‘The Dinosaur Heresies’. According to Professor Bakker there have been waves of extinction, and these extinction events mainly attacked, or affected, one particular type of animal… warm...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
What killed off the dinosaurs? There are many competing theories yet there is no ‘smoking gun’. There is evidence however, and with each bit of evidence comes another theory. Dinosaurs didn’t disappear overnight. It took a few millions years for them to die out....
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