Evolution Talk – Past Episodes

148 – The Evolution of Consciousness – Part 2

147 – The Evolution of Consciousness – Part 1

146 – AI – The Next Step

145 Exploring the Depths of Evolutionary Psychiatry Part 2

143 -The Foundations of Evolutionary Psychiatry Part 1

142 – From A Warm Pond

141 – Suboptimal Design

140 – About Those Fingerprints

139 – What’s Old Is New Again

138 – The Ants Have It

137 – Reading, Writing, & Evolution

136 – Playing Dead

135 – Why Teach Evolution

134 – Did the Homo Naledi Bury Their Dead?

133 – Nature’s Halloween Party

132 – Gene Flow: The Recipe of Life

131 – The Bone Wars

130 – Our Reptilian Brain?

129 –  It’s All One Song

128 – The Grand Tapestry of Macroevolution

127 – The Dance of the Alleles

126 – Where There Is No Light

125 – The Galapagos & Adaptive Radiation

124 – Fact & Theory

123 – What They Ate

122 – The End of the Hominin River

121 – Hominins: Homo erectus

120 – Hominins: Homo habilis

119 – Hominins: Paranthropus

118 – Hominins: Lucy and the Australopithecus

117 – Hominins: Ardipithecus ramidus

116 – Hominins: Ardipithecus kadabba

115 – Hominins: Orrorin tugenensis

114 – Hominins: Sahelanthropus tchadensis

113 – Hominids or Hominins

112 – Walk This Way

111 – Return of the Naledi

110 – A Spandrel in the Works

109 – The Eclipse: A Watchmaker

108 – The Eclipse: Mutationism 

107 – The Eclipse: Neo-Lamarkism

106 – The Eclipse of Darwinism

105 – Speciation Pt.2

104 – Speciation Pt.1

103 –  One Cell’s Junk

102 – Orthogenesis

101 – Gone Forever

100 –  Eureka Moments

099 – The Eggplant of Life

098 – Bringing Back the Mammoth

097 – A Gut Feeling

096 – The Immortal Gene

095 – Hitting Replay

094 – The Joy of Mutation

093 – Jaws

092 – Love is Like… Hydrogen?

091 – A Selection Strategy

090 – A Bit of Astrobiology

089 – Carrion My Wayward Plant

088 – Artificial Selection

087 – Meet LUCA

086 – Cro-Magnon

085 – The Cosmic Calendar

084 – Dating Fossils Again

083 – Homo Naledi 2020

082 – Evolution Does Not Produce Perfection

081 – Is Evolution Random?

080 – The Second Law of Thermodynamics

079 – The Human Eye

078 – Denisovans

077 – Survival of the Fittest Part 2 (with Stephanie Keep)

076 – Mary Anning

075 – Rosalind Franklin

074 – An Interview With Emma Darwin

073 – Convergent Evolution

072 – Cladistics

071 – An Interview With Jonathan Tweet

070 – Are We Still Evolving?

069 – Your Brain

068 – Homo Naledi

067 – The Evolution of Music

066 – Math and Maupertuis

065 – Coevolution

064 – Why Water?

063 – Misconceptions About Evolution & Natural Selection

062 – An Explosion of Cambrian Proportions

061 – An Appendix

060 – Radiation and DNA

059 – Mendel and His Peas

058 – Our Unique Species

057 – Are We Unique?

056 – Hairless Apes

055 – Master Switches

054 – The Predictive Power of Evolution

053 – The Strange Case of Richard Owen

052 – Epigenetics

051 – 99%

050 – The Hobbits of Flores

049 – Evolutionary Psychology

048 – The Missing Link

047 – Self-Directed Evolution

046 – Mitochondrial Eve

045 – The Anthropocene

044 – Having a Laugh

043 – Punctuated Equilibrium

042 – The Piltdown Man

041 – Darwin’s Bulldog

040 – Neanderthalis Extinctus

039 – The Neanderthal

038 – Genetic Drift

037 – Non-Overlapping Magisteria

036 – Altruism

035 – Survival of the Fittest?

034 – Putting the Selection in Sex

033 – Warm Blooded Dinosaurs

032 – Where Are the Dinosaurs?

031 – A Whale of a Tale

030 – An Interview With Charles Darwin

029 – Mistakes Were Made

028 – Is Everything Related?

027 – Fossil Dating

026 – Robert Chambers

025 – The Case of Patrick Matthew

024 – The Work of WC Wells

023 – Unlucky Lamarck

022 – Erasmus Darwin

021 – Hutton’s Hypothesis

020 – Diderot’s Dream

019 – Of Mermaids and Men

018 – Lucretius – Evolution’s Poet

017 – The Father of Zoology

016 – Darwin and God

015 – Darwin or Design

014 – Darwin’s Doubts

013 – The Beginning: Out of the Sea

012 – The Beginning: An Arms Race

011 – The Beginning: Multicellularity Rules

010 – The Beginning: Sexual Reproduction

009 – The Beginning: Cyanobacteria

008 – The Beginning: Life

007 – Only A Theory

006 – Alfred Russel Wallace

005 – Why Darwin Matters

004 – On the Origin of Species

003 – Darwin: The Calm Before the Storm

002 – Darwin on the HMS Beagle

001 – Darwin Before the Beagle