There's a great book called the beak of the finch that sort of follows the grants and their graduate students on this decade long chase for uncovering evolution. And so it's kind of one of those am you know, it's almost evolution in a test tube, but the test tube is nature. How do you feel about people going to the galopagos as tourists said? Pisuof no, it doesn't, you know. Any situation where people are out there enjoying nature makes me ynow.
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