Evolution Talk

Frog populations remained pretty much the same in Podville until the Great Fire of 2015. After the fire the population of blue frogs increased. Welcome to genetic drift, the subject of this week's epi...

18 Maj 201512min

In 1997 Professor Stephen Jay Gould published an essay in Natural History which also appeared in his book Rocks of Ages. This essay was titled 'Non-Overlapping Magisteria'. It's commonly referred to a...

11 Maj 201517min

Where does altruism come from? How did it evolve in a world ruled by 'selfish genes'?

4 Maj 201518min

The term 'Survival of the Fittest' was unleashed on the world in 1864 by Herbert Spencer when he published his work Principles of Biology. It was later picked up by Charles Darwin who used it himself ...

27 Apr 201513min

For Charles Darwin, the idea of sexual selection explained a lot of what he saw in the animal kingdom. He gave sexual selection just as much importance as natural selection.

20 Apr 201513min

In 1986 Professor Robert Bakker, a paleontologist, published 'The Dinosaur Heresies'. According to Professor Bakker there have been waves of extinction, and these extinction events mainly attacked, or...

13 Apr 201510min

What killed off the dinosaurs? There are many competing theories yet there is no 'smoking gun'. There is evidence however, and with each bit of evidence comes another theory. Dinosaurs didn't disappea...

6 Apr 201513min

Today's episode of Evolution Talk is brought to you by all of those animals out there who exhibit vestigial features (which is pretty much every animal out there). Our DNA contains traces of our past ...

30 Mars 201512min