Richard Dawkins, inaugural Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the bodies of animals resemble their environments from thousands of years ago, and why sequencing these genomes offers a time machine to previous stages of evolution.
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Scott L. Gardner, professor of biological sciences, joins us to discuss parasitology around the world and how these tiny creatures offer insight to the evolutionary history of regions.
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Ogi Ogas discusses what it means to think and experience emotions and discuss why an even higher form of consciousness might be in our future.
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Ogi Ogas discusses what it means to think and experience emotions and discuss why an even higher form of consciousness might be in our future.
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University scholar Edward Slingerland joins us to discuss why many organisms — human and otherwise — like to tie one on now and again and the effect that has had on our societies.
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Arik Kershenbaum, a zoologist and fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge, joins us to talk about understanding evolution on Earth and how that might parallel alien life forms elsewhere.
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Rob Dunn, professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University joins us to talk about why we prefer cooked food, the various ways we taste, and how our pursuit of a good meal might’ve led to starting the first fire.
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Christopher Ryan joins us to talk about how our ancestors might not have enjoyed some of the perks of the 21st Century, but they also didn’t have some of the worries that we do today.
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Biologist Neil Shubin joins us to talk about the evolution of, well … evolution.
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Science writer Lydia Denworth joins us to talk about the role close-knit communities play in our mental and physical health.
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Paleoanthropologist professor Lee Berger and Director of the Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey Becca Peixotto join us to discuss the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science exhibition.
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Biologist Mark W. Moffett joins us to talk about how humans have evolved to get along with one another while other primates won’t think twice about killing a fellow chimp they don’t recognize.
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