An Interview With Charles Darwin
To mark the occasion of Evolution Talk's 30th episode, Rick Coste steps into the past to interview Charles Darwin.
23 Mar 201515min
Mistakes Were Made
In the X-Men movies the X-Men are mutants. Mistakes were made during DNA replications that brought out features and abilities which were not present in the population prior to their births. Defects wh...
16 Mar 201510min
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 Mar 201512min
Fossil Dating
How do we date fossils? There are a few ways and in this episode we will look at a couple.
2 Mar 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 201518min
