Quirks & Quarks | 21 December 2018 | 0h 16m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Peter Ward, author of Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present. Backgrounds epigenetics, the process by which environmentally prompted changes are passed on to offspring without changes in the genes.
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Darwin Comes to Town
Quirks & Quarks | 26 October 2018 | 0h 16m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Menno Schilthuizen about his book Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution. Backgrounds examples of very rapid evolution as animals and plants adapt rapidly to expanding cities.