Of Mermaids and Men
Evolution Talk
English - January 05, 2015 10:39 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 186 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Lucretius – Evolution’s Poet
Next Episode: Diderot’s Dream – Updated
Benoit de Maillet believed that life, all life, came from the sea. And not only did it come from the sea, but it continued to evolve into different species as it encountered different environments. To present these ideas would be dangerous to him so he wrote it as a work of fiction called Telliamed.