Episode 16 So what is evolution exactly? How would you explain it to someone who doesn't think they are "good at science"? Can we see evolution happening today? Should we be worried about mutant Vikings and hybrid coyotes?
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Show Notes Kleptoplasty Sea Slug:
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/biological/aquatic-plants-and-algae/structure-and-function/weird-science-kleptoplasty
Al regel achat: while standing on one foot--story explanation (and how it is used in modern Hebrew)
https://www.haaretz.com/word-of-the-day-al-regel-akhat-1.5318459
Elephants adapting to be tuskless
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wildlife-watch-news-tuskless-elephants-behavior-change/
Peppered Moths of London
http://www.mothscount.org/text/63/peppered_moth_and_natural_selection.html
Chicken or Egg…first the egg!
https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/which-came-first-chicken-or-egg
We don’t understand big numbers
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Coywolf (or wolfoyte if preferred)
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/animal-behaviour/is-this-coyote-wolf-hybrid-taking-over-north-america/
Worm composting
http://www.franklincountywastedistrict.org/vermicomposting.html
Zack's Worm Bin
https://amzn.to/330caxl
Lactose tolerance or intolerance, who’s the mutant now?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an-evolutionary-whodunit-how-did-humans-develop-lactose-tolerance
And this one has a map: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27938-everything-you-need-to-know-about-lactose-intolerance/
Reading up on evolution
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/resourcelibrary.php
https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-evolution
Video on natural selection (Crash Course):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTftyFboC_M&list=PL3EED4C1D684D3ADF&index=14
Video on evolution (Crash Course)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GagfbA2vo&list=PL3EED4C1D684D3ADF&index=20
History of language evolution
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=axx
Or a TED-ed short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWDKsHm6gTA
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper (Kindle Edition)
https://amzn.to/2O4ekYo
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch (Kindle Edition)
https://amzn.to/33YQN0G
A forest of language trees, showing their relationships:
https://eurotalk.com/blog/2015/06/03/the-language-forest-how-are-world-languages-related/
Darwin
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin
