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Season 2 Episode 10 - Home Again, Home Again, Jiggidy Jig
Discovering Darwin - February 06, 2020 19:49 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this, the final episode of Season 2, Darwin does some island hoping, takes a surprising return trip to Brazil, and on October 2, 1836, finishes his 4 year 9 month journey. In this episode of the podcast we are joined by Dr. Belinda Sly, a evolutionary developmental biologist and colleague of...
Season 2 Episode 9-without sorrow or regret
Discovering Darwin - August 12, 2019 17:36 ★★★★★ - 10 ratings"At daylight, Tahiti, an island which must for ever remain classical to the voyager in the South Sea, was in view. At a distance the appearance was not attractive. The luxuriant vegetation of the lower part could not yet be seen, and as the clouds rolled past, the wildest and most precipitous p...
Season 2 Episode 8 - Galapagos
Discovering Darwin - February 11, 2018 17:11 ★★★★★ - 10 ratings"In the morning (17th) we landed on Chatham Island, which, like the others, rises with a tame and rounded outline, broken here and there by scattered hillocks, the remains of former craters. Nothing could be less inviting than the first appearance. A broken field of black basaltic lava, thrown ...
Bonus Episode: Drawn a Bill
Discovering Darwin - December 27, 2017 19:53 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTo celebrate the 186th Anniversary of Charles Darwin setting sail on the HMS Beagle we post a Bonus podcast discussion with Dr. Geoffrey Williams, an economics professor, on the expenses and wealth of Charles Darwin. Hope you enjoy the conversation! image from Darwin Online
Season 2 Episode 7: Potatoless Breakfast
Discovering Darwin - December 20, 2017 19:31 ★★★★★ - 10 ratings"I climbed up on foot to very near the crest; from the Puna I experienced, I cannot suppose the elevation is less than 8000 to 10000 ft; There was a good deal of snow, which however only remains here in the winter months. The winds in these districts obey very regular laws; every day a fresh b...
Season 2 Episode 6: Boat Memory
Discovering Darwin - September 04, 2017 20:19 ★★★★★ - 10 ratings"Whilst going on shore, we pulled alongside a canoe with 6 Fuegians. I never saw more miserable creatures; stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint & quite naked.— One full aged woman absolutely so, the rain & spray were dripping from her body; their red skins fil...
S2 E4 - My Gacho Bromance
Discovering Darwin - June 06, 2017 20:05 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode of we are joined by the historian Dr. Gregg Bocketti (Transylvania University) in a discussion on the cultural and political conditions of South America when Charles Darwin set shore in Brazil and surrounding territories in the 1830's. In 1831, a year before Darwin was to arriv...
Season 2 Episode 2 - and he dies.......at the end.
Discovering Darwin - April 30, 2017 21:45 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode we discuss the extensive library on the HMS Beagle that was created by Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy. Over 400 books were in the ship's library and the catalog had a heavy emphasis on travel accounts (travelogues), natural history and geology. We discussed Humboldt and hi...
Season 2 Episode 3 - Court of Neptune
Discovering Darwin - April 30, 2017 21:37 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode Sarah, Josh and James discuss the opening chapters of Voyage of the Beagle where Darwin recounts the initial months of his voyage that includes an aborted stop at the Canary Islands, a visit to Cape Verde and then his first overland trip in Brazil. James discussed how Darwin sp...
Season 2 Episode 1: Hot Coffee
Discovering Darwin - March 15, 2017 17:53 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis is the first episode for Season 2 of Discovering Darwin. We have titled this season Darwin the Adventurer because we plan to explore in detail the Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin's five year around-the-world survey in which he collected the specimens and made the observations that ultimately...
Chapter XV - Recapitulation and Conclusion
Discovering Darwin - August 15, 2016 19:24 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode we discussed Chapter XV - Recapitulation & Conclusion from Darwin's Origin of Species. It is our final podcast of this season and we chose not to recapitulate as much as discuss how Darwin's book was received at the time and how Darwin handled the release of his book. Although o...
Chapter XIV Embryology
Discovering Darwin - June 28, 2016 18:01 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis episode discusses Chapter XIV where Darwin applies his ideas of evolution and descent with modification to explain the developing "natural system" of classification, the unity of embryos and why organisms have rudimentary or vestigial organs. Classification From the most remote perio...
Geographical Distribution: Chapter XII-XIII
Discovering Darwin - June 16, 2016 18:34 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode we gather our liquid strength and courage to work our way through two chapters of Origin of Species, Chapter XII - Geographical Distribution and Chapter XIII - Geographical Distribution continued. Although Sarah predicted the podcast would last 3 hours we luckily were able to re...
Chapter XI -On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings
Discovering Darwin - April 27, 2016 14:38 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLet us now see whether the several facts and laws relating to the geological succession of organic beings accord best with the common view of the immutability of species, or with that of their slow and gradual modification, through variation and natural selection. In this episode we explore...
Chapter X - On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
Discovering Darwin - February 09, 2016 16:02 ★★★★★ - 10 ratings...so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely-graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the mos...
Episode 9: Chapter IX - Hybridism
Discovering Darwin - January 05, 2016 22:15 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe dedicate this episode of the podcast to Chapter 9 - Hybridism in Darwin's Origin of Species (OoS). We all agree that this chapter is one of the most challenging chapters to read in OoS. In this chapter Darwin force marches the reader through example after example of hybrids while simultaneou...
Season 1 Episode 8: Chapter VIII Instinct
Discovering Darwin - November 12, 2015 18:44 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMANY instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. [page 317] In this episode of Discovering Darwin we covered Darwin's chapter on Instinct and how Chuck attempted to explain how animals exhibit compl...
Human Instinct - Special Episode with Dr. Mark Jackson
Discovering Darwin - October 09, 2015 18:48 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode we take a side trip with Dr. Mark Jackson, our colleague from the psychology department, to explore the historical view of instinct behaviors in humans. The next chapter of Darwin's Origin of Species deals specifically with instinct behavior in non-human animals and it stimulate...
Season 1 Episode 7: Difficulties with the Theory
Discovering Darwin - September 26, 2015 19:48 - mp3 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode we decided to break from the standard form of the podcast and discuss two chapters at once instead of the traditional single chapter per episode. Episode 7 covers Chapter VI - Difficulties with the Theory and Chapter VII - Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Select...
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