Bringing Back the Mammoth

Colossal Biosciences hopes to reintroduce the wooly mammoth to the world, thousands of years after the last one walked the earth.  If successful they will have paved the way for a “de-extinction pipeline” for other lost species. Evolution Talk is also a...

A Gut Feeling

Evolution by Natural Selection has assisted many amazing symbiotic relationships.  Here’s one you may not be familiar with, and which you’re a participant in.  It involves your gut microbiome. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon,...

The Immortal Gene

In 1976, British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene.  It made exactly the splash he’d intended, but people were confused. How can genes be selfish? Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and...

Hitting Replay

Stephen Jay Gould once asked what would happen if the evolution of life on Earth were to take the same path if we had the ability to start it all over again?  In this episode we’ll ask the question again … Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links...

The Joy of Mutation

Imagine a world without mutants. I don’t mean those super-powered heroes that populate the comics and movies from Marvel. I’m talking about you, me, and everyone else we know. It doesn’t stop there. We are all mutants trying to survive.  Evolution Talk is also a book!...