Eureka Moments

Great idea don’t spring out of a vacuum, but they do sometimes seem to.  In this episode we take a look at a few. 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...

The Eggplant of Life

What came first, the chicken or the egg?  It’s an age old question.  How about another one?  What stored genetic information first?  DNA or RNA? Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others on the front page...

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...