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? For show notes and more, please visit https://Evoluti...
10 Okt 202212min
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 pipel...
3 Okt 202212min
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. For s...
26 Sep 202211min
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? For show notes and ...
19 Sep 20229min
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 ag...
12 Sep 202213min
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. We are all mutants tryi...
5 Sep 20229min
Jaws!
Just what does the act of chewing have to do with brain size and evolution? Perhaps nothing or everything. A team of researchers is helping us to understand exactly how much energy is involved when ...
29 Aug 20228min
Love is Like... Hydrogen?
It has long been believed that an early oxygenation even gave rise to the eukaryotes. Perhaps oxygen had nothing to do with it. A castle deep beneath the ocean waves might hold the answer. For show n...
9 Mai 20228min
