Latest Evolutionsoup Podcast Episodes
HOMO NALEDI: The Inside Story ~ with NatGeo Explorer KENEILOE MOLOPYANE
Evolution Soup - September 04, 2023 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDr Keneiloe Molopyane is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey and a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer, 2021. Having begun as an underwater archaeologist, she ended up as an 'underground astronaut' squeezing through the claustropho...
Life's Big Bang - The Story of the Cambrian Explosion ~ with SHUHAI XIAO
Evolution Soup - May 26, 2023 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat ignited the famed Cambrian Explosion? The majority of today's animal phyla got their start in this strange yet exciting period of time over five hundred million years ago. What triggered this radiation of life, some with shells, others with skeletons? What were the first predators? And what...
The Seven-Million-Year-Long Journey - Why Humans Stood Upright ~ with JEREMY DESILVA
Evolution Soup - February 19, 2023 17:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat caused the ancestors of human beings start walking upright? The seven-million-year-long-journey started in the trees of Africa and culminates in Homo sapiens dominance of the globe. But the answers to 'why' and 'when' are still elusive. JEREMY DESILVA is an anthropologist at Dartmouth Coll...
MEGALODON - The Shark That Ate Whales ~ with JACK COOPER
Evolution Soup - January 28, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe Meg! Did it really exist? (Spoiler alert: it did). This giant of the Miocene seas has been of keen interest to paleontologists for decades. It's true dimensions have never been known until recently. JACK COOPER is a PhD student working on the functional diversity of sharks through time. His...
Evolution Gone Wrong? Why Our Bodies Work (or Don't!) ~ with ALEX BEZZERIDES
Evolution Soup - December 19, 2022 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsEvolution is a marvel, but - bad backs? Crooked teeth? Allergies? What gives? ALEX BEZZERIDES is a professor of biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho, where he teaches a wide range of biology classes, from human anatomy and physiology to entomology. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology...
Did Star Trek Get Evolution Right? ~ with Star Trek Science Advisor DR MOHAMED NOOR
Evolution Soup - November 06, 2022 17:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDR MOHAMED NOOR is a Professor of Biology at Duke University involved in evolutionary genetics research , looking into how genetic changes contribute to the formation of new species. A keen Star Trek aficionado, he is the author of the book Live Long and Evolve and serves as a Science Advisor on...
SABERTOOTH EMPIRE - Smilodon & Ancient Big Cats ~ with LARISA DESANTIS
Evolution Soup - September 13, 2022 19:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDR LARISA DESANTIS is a conservation biologist at Vanderbilt University and vertebrate paleontologist in the department of biological sciences. Larisa studies fossil mammals as a way of determining how they responded to ancient climate change. MARK from Evolution Soup talks all things sabertoot...
SABERTOOTH EMPIRE - Smilodon & Ancient Big Cats ~ with LARISA DESANTIS
Evolution Soup - September 13, 2022 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDR LARISA DESANTIS is a conservation biologist at Vanderbilt University and vertebrate paleontologist in the department of biological sciences. Larisa studies fossil mammals as a way of determining how they responded to ancient climate change. MARK from Evolution Soup talks all things sabertoot...
How Homo Erectus Took Over the World ~ with DR KAREN BAAB
Evolution Soup - August 02, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThey were the most successful hominids of all time, existing on earth for almost two million years and leaving fossil evidence across much of the globe. From Africa to the Caucasus to the Far East, Homo erectus travelled far and left an indelible mark on prehistory. DR KAREN BAAB is a biologic...
Neanderthals - Our Kindred Spirits ~ with REBECCA WRAGG SYKES
Evolution Soup - July 26, 2022 17:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWere neanderthals just dumb brutes waiting for extinction? The latest research says they were anything but dimwitted. They had culture, forethought, and emotion - just like us. REBECCA WRAGG SYKES is a palaeolithic archaeologist and honorary fellow at the University of Liverpool, specialising i...
Life from Non Life - How Evolution Powers Everything ~ Professor LEE CRONIN
Evolution Soup - May 18, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe search for the origin of life is nothing new. Abiogenesis - life from non life - has fascinated and frustrated science for countless years. But what if we've been going about it the wrong way? PROFESSOR LEE CRONIN holds the Regius chair of chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His primary...
Life from Non Life - How Evolution Powers Everything ~ Professor LEE CRONIN
Evolution Soup - May 18, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe search for the origin of life is nothing new. Abiogenesis - life from non life - has fascinated and frustrated science for countless years. But what if we've been going about it the wrong way? PROFESSOR LEE CRONIN holds the Regius chair of chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His primary...
Humanity's Second Cousins - The Story of Paranthropus ~ with ALEXIS WILLIAMS
Evolution Soup - March 29, 2022 18:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThey lived along our ancestors and were very much like them - but then vanished from history. What is the story of the genus Paranthropus and its three fascinating species? ALEXIS WILLIAMS is a PhD student in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington Universit...
Our Earliest Ancestor? The Story of Ida ~ with SERGI LÓPEZ-TORRES
Evolution Soup - December 27, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn 1983, an exquisitely-preserved fossil of a new species of primate, Darwinius masillae, was unearthed in Germany's Messel Pit. The media hailed the 47-million-year-old specimen as the missing link. Is Darwinius (aka 'Ida') the so-called missing link between primates and humans, the earliest h...
Concerning Hobbits - The Story of Homo floresiensis ~ with DR KAREN BAAB
Evolution Soup - November 29, 2021 22:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHobbits were REAL? Really? Actually ... yes. DR KAREN BAAB is a biological anthropologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Midwestern University, Arizona and her main interests are the extinct relatives of humans and what the shape of hominin brains can tell us. Dr Baa...
Is 'Race' a Thing? ~ with anthropologist KATE KELLER
Evolution Soup - August 24, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat is race and ethnicity? KATE KELLER is a biological anthropologist who teaches introductory biological anthropology and human variation classes to undergraduates. She enjoys taking difficult, controversial, or esoteric topics and explaining them in accessible, fun, and relatable ways. What...
The Origin of Birds & Flight ~ Dr CORWIN SULLIVAN
Evolution Soup - June 02, 2021 19:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHow and why did reptiles start to fly? Dr Corwin Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. Along with studying the origin of birds and flight, Dr Sullivan researches the diversity, evolution and functional morphology of fossil vertebrates, ...
The Origin of Birds & Flight ~ Dr CORWIN SULLIVAN
Evolution Soup - June 02, 2021 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHow and why did reptiles start to fly? Dr Corwin Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. Along with studying the origin of birds and flight, Dr Sullivan researches the diversity, evolution and functional morphology of fossil vertebrates, ...
Dire Wolves DNA Secrets ~ with ANGELA PERRI
Evolution Soup - April 06, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWere the Dire Wolves seen on Game of Thrones simply myth? ANGELA PERRI BA (Hons), PhD is an archaeologist based at Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the nature of human-environmental interactions by analyzing early relationships between humans, animals, climate, and landscapes. MA...
What is Deep Time? ~ with Paleontologist MICHAEL HUDGINS
Evolution Soup - February 14, 2021 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsA deep dive into dating methods, dinosaurs, and Deep Time with paleontologist, Michael Hudgins! Michael is a systematics and evolution masters student studying palaeontology at the University of Alberta, Canada and his main research centers on late Cretaceous primitive bird-hipped dinosaurs kno...
Was the Dodo Actually Smart? ~ with EUGENIA GOLD
Evolution Soup - December 26, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDumb as a Dodo - or was the extinct flightless bird actually smart? EUGENIA GOLD is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department of Suffolk University Boston, USA and currently a postdoctoral researcher & instructor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences. Eugenia has researched the extin...
Marsupials: History & Mysteries ~ with ARIEL MARCY
Evolution Soup - November 14, 2020 18:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsARIEL MARCY - is an evolutionary biologist and educational game designer at the University of Queensland. During her PhD, Ariel will start to untangle the question of why marsupials are less diverse than placentals by studying Australian rodents. MARK from Evolution Soup connects with Ariel fro...
Digging Spinosaurus ~ with National Geographic Explorer NIZAR IBRAHIM
Evolution Soup - November 10, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat was enigmatic dinosaur Spinosaurus really like? NIZAR IBRAHIM is a vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist based at the University of Detroit Mercy (USA), where he is an Assistant Professor of Biology teaching courses in anatomy and evolution. Over the last decade Nizar has l...
Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER
Evolution Soup - October 07, 2020 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBRIANA POBINER is a Research Scientist and Museum Educator in the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution and her fields of interest include paleoanthropology and the evolution of the human diet. MARK from Evolution Soup talks to Briana about the impact of meat-eating on human evol...
Were We Scavengers? Meat-Eating & Human Evolution ~ with Professor BRIANA POBINER
Evolution Soup - October 07, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBRIANA POBINER is a Research Scientist and Museum Educator in the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution and her fields of interest include paleoanthropology and the evolution of the human diet. MARK from Evolution Soup talks to Briana about the impact of meat-eating on human evol...
How Monkeys Discovered the New World ~ with ANDREW HOLMES
Evolution Soup - September 23, 2020 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsPrimates evolved in Africa - so how did monkeys get all the way to South America? To make things even more intriguing, a fossil an extinct ancestor of modern monkeys has now been found in the New World. ANDREW HOLMES is a paleoanthropologist & PhD candidate at the University of Toronto - study...
Are There Human Subspecies?~ with LAURA VAN HOLSTEIN
Evolution Soup - August 29, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsLAURA VAN HOLSTEIN is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge who has recently published her revolutionary research on the role of subspecies in evolution, authenticating one of Charles Darwin's theories. Laura studied for her BA from 2013 to 2016 in Biological Anthropology. Her main fie...
Who was the 'Ancient One'? The Strange Story of Kennewick Man ~ with CARLTON GOVER
Evolution Soup - August 04, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsSPECIAL EPISODE! In 1996 a skull and skeleton were stumbled upon near the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State. What followed were years of speculation, assumptions, legal battles and contention. The remains of the 9000-year-old Paleoamerican dubbed 'Kennewick Man' consumed the world ...
The Evolution of Whales ~ with Professor HANS THEWISSEN
Evolution Soup - June 29, 2020 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJ. G. M. 'Hans' Thewissen, Ph. D. Anatomy Professor at Ohio University, studies fossil cetaceans in order to answer questions about the evolution of whales -- in particular, about how whales originated from land animals. MARK from Evolution Soup talks to Hans about his early discoveries, fossi...
Is Coronavirus Evolving? ~ with Jon Perry of 'Stated Clearly'
Evolution Soup - June 05, 2020 21:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIs Coronavirus evolving? Covid-19 has the world in its grip, but is it fully understood? In this special upload, JON PERRY of the Stated Clearly YouTube channel talks about viruses, how the new coronavirus evolved as well as where it could have come from. Illustrated with clips from 'Where Do N...
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