If you were somehow in control of repopulating and regenerating an area that had essentially been wiped clean of life, how would you do it?  With limi...

How do we find life in a galaxy, or galaxies, far far away while sitting here on Earth? It’s not just by looking through telescopes or sending probes....

A friend of mine recently poased a question on his podcast about carrion plants.  If you don't know what one is, the carrion plant emits an odor that ...

We don’t know why dogs became man’s best friend, but we have some ideas.  And those ideas take us back anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.They a...

In this episode I want to introduce you to someone.  Actually, this someone is a thing, and this thing wiggled its way through life between two to fou...

As a kid I was fascinated by the idea of cavemen.  Of course, all I had to go on were a few porrply produced movies that depicted cavemen battling din...

Many years ago, in 1977, astonomer and author Carl Sagan offered us the concept of a “Cosmic Calendar” in his book The Dragons of Eden.  It’s a fun th...

It's time to look at fossil dating again!  The last episode mentioned two dating methods used to estimate how old the Homo Naledi bones found the Risi...

Quite a few episodes back, I produced a show that looked at a new hominin species discovered in 2013. This history-changing discovery happened when pa...

Natural selection isn't perfect. It only cares that something works. If it works and is not harmful to its host, then that something is passed on.    ...