Is Everything Related?
The Human genome project took 13 years to complete. Hundreds of scientists from all over the world were involved. What's just as amazing as the completion of the project is the story that it tells whe...
9 Maalis 201512min
Fossil Dating
How do we date fossils? There are a few ways and in this episode we will look at a couple.
2 Maalis 201512min
Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers' masterpiece was titled 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'. In it he explained how everything evolved. Everything from simple, less complex forms, to more complex forms over...
23 Helmi 201518min
The Case of Patrick Matthew
Patrick Matthew published 'On Naval Timber and Arboriculture' in 1831. There were a few positive reviews but they were somewhat tepid in their praise. Only a couple reviewers happened to notice someth...
16 Helmi 201518min
The Work of WC Wells
William Charles Wells, in no uncertain terms, pointed out that mankind is not immune to nature's ability to modify an organism's features over time.
9 Helmi 201512min
Unlucky Lamarck
Jean Baptiste Lamarck's mechanism for evolution was wrong, as history shows, and that fact has haunted his memory ever since. But ideas and theories have ways of being resurrected and, in recent years...
2 Helmi 201518min
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus was a country physician. He believed that women should have access to the same education that men did, and that slavery should be abolished. He also believed that life evolved from a single fi...
26 Tammi 201516min
Hutton's Hypothesis
James Hutton saw the power of natural selection, but he didn't see how it could eventually, over vast spans of time, mold an animal into something completely different. That would have to wait until C...
19 Tammi 201513min
