In this episode... * How related are you to a Harbour seal? * Bec gives some novel advice. * Matt mends a mistake. * And there's all sorts of AOB. If you want to bid on the £5,000 t-shirt referenced in 006 of A Problem Squared, join us on the 26th of May, 2022! All proceeds go to Water Aid - links to come. Bec's new book 'Now LiveScreaming' is out now! Go buy it! You can find Yale's incredible evolutionary and ecological chat here:
https://vertlife.org/ And just a little recap, seals are in the Mammalian order
Carnivora. Humans are in the Mammalian order
Primates - 82.1 millions years ago the '
magnorder' of
Boreoeutheria split into
Euarchontoglires (which later gave us Primates) and
Laurasiatheria (which gave us Carnivora). Bec also references ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King in her dinglett.
