Evolution Talk

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

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

If you were somehow in control of repopulating and regenerating an area that had essentially been wiped clean of life, how would you do it? With limited resources at your disposal would you decide to...

20 Sep 20219min

How do we find life in a galaxy, or galaxies, far far away while sitting here on Earth? It's not just by looking through telescopes or sending probes. Those will tell us a few things, but not everyth...

6 Sep 202112min

A friend of mine recently posed a question on his podcast about carrion plants. If you don't know what one is, the carrion plant emits an odor that is very similar to rotting flesh.This odor attracts...

23 Aug 20218min

We don't know why dogs became man's best friend, but we have some ideas. And those ideas take us back anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.They are perhaps the perfect visual example when it come...

30 Mar 202112min

In this episode I want to introduce you to someone.  Actually, this someone is a thing, and this thing wiggled its way through life between two to four billion years ago. Listener, meet LUCA. Your Las...

9 Mar 202111min

As a kid I was fascinated by the idea of cavemen. Of course, all I had to go on were a few poorly produced movies that depicted cavemen battling dinosaurs, which of course never happened. I even own...

2 Feb 202113min