Ak, when did you start to get excited about evolution? I think it was when i was doing some of those early readings in high school. From there, john studied at university arizona, and he took an evolution class by doctor nancy moran. She researches the gut byom of aphids. And so tell me a little bit about when you first kind of grasped the concept of evolution. Then when did you begin to realize that mutations are responsible for a lot of these different like, appearances and behavior and capabilities of animals.
Celebrate your lucky mutations with an episode about natural selection, agonizing boat trips, redemption stories, olde timey inter-family marriages, how much money you can make playing videos games, finch beaks, whether or not cave men are kinda hot and how to live on a small island with your soulmate. Evolutionary biologist and the director of the Moore Lab of Zoology, John McCormack, chats about all things evolution and gives Alie a new appreciation for how genetic blips can be hidden strengths.
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Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris
Music by Nick Thorburn