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What's Old Is New Again
Attics aren’t the only places you’ll find old secrets from the past, begging to be rediscovered or let out. You have them in you as well. I’m not talk...
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Episode 138
The Ants Have It
Ants have mastered the art of cooperation. They have highly organized social structures, caste systems, and with everything they do, they do for the ...
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Reading, Writing, & Evolution
Evolution by natural selection is not perfect, nor does it strive to be. It doesn’t strive to be anything at all. An adaptation that is beneficial u...
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Playing Dead
If you’ve ever heard the phrase “play possum”, you may know it means to feign death. It’s real thing. Possums do it, as do sharks, ants, and a multitu...
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Why Teach Evolution
With the start of a new season of episodes, I thought it appropriate to revisit why I created this podcast in the first place with the question – “Why...
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Did the Homo Naledi Bury Their Dead?
The Homo Naledi have been intriguing scientists since their discovery in 2013, challenging our understanding of early human life. In this episode, we ...
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Nature's Halloween Party
Dive into the mysterious world of Batesian mimicry, where harmless creatures masquerade as dangerous ones to survive. Journey with us from Britain’s s...
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Gene Flow: The Recipe of Life
When a vibrant caravan of travelers arrives with new foods, traditions, and stories, a sleepy hamlet’s culinary landscape is forever altered. We explo...
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The Bone Wars
Discover “Fossils, Feuds, and Fantastical Creatures: The Cope and Marsh Saga.” Journey back to 1863 Berlin, where Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Char...
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Our Reptilian Brain?
From the quiet roads of New Hampshire, where snapping turtles are more common than lizards, to the depths of our evolutionary past, we’ll grapple with...
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It's All One Song
Using the metaphor of a simple beat evolving into a complex symphony, we explore how small-scale genetic changes within populations give rise to new s...
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The Grand Tapestry of Macroevolution
In this episode, the focus is on macroevolution, which deals with larger scale evolutionary changes compared to microevolution. Macroevolutionary chan...
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The Dance of the Alleles
The constant dance of microevolution is driven by alleles, different versions of genes that determine traits. Sexual reproduction results in organisms...
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Where There Is No Light
In 2015, a spelunker named Joachim Kreiselmaier discovered a troglobite, a species that lives in underground environments, in the Danube-Aach cave sys...
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The Galapagos & Adaptive Radiation
On September 15, 1835, the Galapagos Islands welcomed the arrival of a ship that had traversed South America, offering a strikingly different landscap...
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Fact & Theory
It can be straightforward to confuse facts and theories, but they remain distinct entities. Asserting that evolutoion by natural selection is not a fa...
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What They Ate
Our diet has a direct impact on our quality of life, and this fact is not new. Throughout the evolution of our species, food availability and our diet...
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The End of the Hominin River
Our journey down the Hominin River in search of our ancestors and the evolution of our species has been extensive. Homo sapiens began exploring the wo...
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Hominins: Homo erectus
The discovery of a Homo erectus skull in 2005, known as Skull 5, marked a significant archaeological find. Among the five skulls found, estimated to b...
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Hominins: Homo habilis
In 1959, a significant event took place when teeth were discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. These teeth were identified as belonging to a hominin...
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