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The Evolution of City Mouse And Country Mouse

October 2, 2019 Current Events, Environment, Science and Technology

Brendan Koerner joins us to talk about the burgeoning study of urban evolution.

How We Evolved The Need To Believe

October 1, 2019 History, Race/Identity

Agustín Fuentes, Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, joins us to talk about the evolution of religion.

The Evolution Of Human Violence

February 12, 2019 Science and Technology

Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham joins us to talk about the evolution of human violence, which he writes about in “The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution.”

Why Chimps Can Be Lazy But We Can’t

January 25, 2019 Science and Technology

Duke University evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer joins us to discuss how the same drive that led us to leave other species behind is now negatively affecting our health. His story “Humans Evolved to Exercise” appears in the Scientific American.

Does Everything Really Need To Be Funny?

June 25, 2018 Culture

Ken Jennings joins us to trace how we’ve developed into a culture that prizes humor over more traditionally appreciated traits like strength and wisdom.

How Urban Wildlife Is Evolving

April 3, 2018 Environment

Urban ecologist Menno Schilthuizen joins us to talk about how lizards, birds and other creatures are adapting to better live alongside us.

Beyond Darwin: What We Still Don’t Know

October 26, 2017 Science and Technology

J. Scott Turner, a professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, discusses biology’s still unanswered questions.

Why Humans Imagine

July 18, 2017 Science and Technology

Columbia College Chicago professor Stephen Asma joins us to talk about how creativity works in the brain – and about how we can visualize a reality that doesn’t yet exist.

Beauty, Evolution And Darwin’s Forgotten Book

June 30, 2017 Science and Technology

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum joins us to talk about how various creatures have changed their physical appearances in order to attract a mate.

Inherit The Wind

May 24, 2017 Culture

We’ll talk about the Dallas Theater Center’s production of “Inherit the Wind” with director Kevin Moriarty.

The Future Of Human Evolution

April 6, 2017 Science and Technology

DT Max joins us to talk about how we handle our continued growth now that we’re smart enough to play a hand in it.

How Darwinism Changed America

February 13, 2017 History, Science and Technology

Randall Fuller joins us to talk about how Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” argument for a common ancestry for all creatures was used as a potent argument against slavery.