4min chapter

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast cover image

The Topic of Truth

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Darwinian Process: How Variants Change

In the Darwinian world what happens is that um let's take the case of mosquitoes like how many offspring does a mosquito have it's like god who knows like 150 000. pigs are the same way i think they can have like nine litters of seven piglets a year something like that we imported wild boar into western Canada as a domestic domestic animal about ten years ago and there's just tens of thousands of them everywhere now. The idea that there has to be random variation in order for things to survive has to be correct because there's random variation in the environment, he says.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode