Max Telford
Evolutionary biologist at University College London and author of The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle (W.W. Norton, 2025), known for research on reconstructing evolutionary relationships and contributions to public science writing.
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Jan 30, 2026 • 1h 1min
Max Telford, "The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Max Telford, an evolutionary biologist at UCL and author of The Tree of Life, guides listeners through four billion years of life's branching history. He explains how modern genetics and old fossils map relationships, reveals surprising kinships like insects as crustaceans, and explores big questions from the origin of backbones to why humans lost tails.
