What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution

What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution « Series from 2019

Series from 2019

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Chart the deep insights and remarkable conclusions Charles Darwin’s ideas on natural selection inspired. These 24 fascinating episodes cover 160 years of non-stop scientific advances and their relationship to Darwin’s groundbreaking theory.

Among them: the discovery of the rules of heredity, the identification of DNA, the recognition of mass extinctions, and the power to manipulate genes.

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What Darwin Knew and Why It Still Matters

Inheritance: Darwin’s Missing Link

Genome Mutations: Evolution’s Raw Material

Gene Flow versus Natural Selection

Geology and Genes: The Geography of Life

Genetic Drift: When Evolution Is Random

Rapid Evolution within Species

Evolution in the Lab

The Many Origins of Species

Cambrian Explosion to Dinosaur Extinction

Reconstructing the Tree of Life with DNA

Human Evolution in All Directions

Evolution Doesn’t Repeat, but It Rhymes

The Evolution of Extreme Life

Imperfect Nature: Ad Hoc Body Designs

The Sterile Worker Paradox

Coevolution: Peace Accords and Arms Races

Microbiomes: Evolution with Small Partners

The Evolution of Brains and Behavior

The Evolution of Sex and Parenting

The Evolution of Aging and Death

Evolutionary Medicine

Gene Editing and Directed Evolution

The Future of Human Evolution