Evolution Talk
Everything you wanted to know about evolution by natural selection in short, easy to digest, episodes. Hosted, and produced by writer Rick Coste.Podcasts
About Those Fingerprints
Published: Nov. 13, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds
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What's Old is New Again
Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds
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The Ants Have It
Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
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Reading, Writing, & Evolution
Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
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Why Teach Evolution?
Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds
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Did the Homo Naledi Bury Their Dead?
Published: June 19, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds
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Nature's Halloween Party
Published: June 12, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 38 seconds
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Gene Flow: The Recipe of Life
Published: June 5, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds
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Get 25% off the Evolution Talk Book until June 8!
Published: May 23, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 27 seconds
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Our Reptilian Brain?
Published: May 22, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 7 seconds
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The Grand Tapestry of Macroevolution
Published: May 8, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds
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The Dance of the Alleles
Published: May 1, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds
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Where There Is No Light
Published: April 24, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds
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The Galapagos & Adaptive Radiation
Published: April 17, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds
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Hominins: The End of the Hominin River
Published: March 27, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds
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Hominins: Homo erectus and the Mystery of the 5 Skulls
Published: March 20, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes
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Hominins: Homo habilis
Published: March 13, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds
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Hominins: Paranthropus
Published: March 6, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds
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Hominins: Lucy and the Australopithecus
Published: Feb. 27, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
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Hominins: Ardipithecus ramidus
Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds
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Hominins: Ardipithecus kadabba
Published: Feb. 13, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds
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Hominins: Orrorin tugenensis
Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 1 second
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds
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Hominins: Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds
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Hominins or Hominids
Published: Jan. 23, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
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Return of the Naledi
Published: Jan. 9, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds
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A Spandrel in the Works
Published: Jan. 2, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds
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The Eclipse: A Watchmaker
Published: Dec. 26, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds
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The Eclipse: Mutationism
Published: Dec. 19, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds
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The Eclipse: Neo-Lamarkism
Published: Dec. 12, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds
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The Eclipse of Darwinism
Published: Dec. 5, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds
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Speciation Pt. 1
Published: Nov. 21, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds
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Evolution Talk - The Book
Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds
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The Eggplant of Life
Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 8:30 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds
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Bringing Back the Mammoth
Published: Oct. 3, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds
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The Immortal Gene
Published: Sept. 19, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
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The Joy of Mutation
Published: Sept. 5, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds
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Evolution Talk is Now a Book
Published: June 14, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 44 seconds
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Love is Like... Hydrogen?
Published: May 9, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 34 seconds
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A Selection Strategy
Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 54 seconds
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A Bit of Astrobiology
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 56 seconds
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Carrion My Wayward Plant
Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Artificial Selection
Published: March 30, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds
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The Cosmic Calendar
Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds
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Dating Fossils Again
Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds
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Evolution Does Not Produce Perfection
Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds
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Is Evolution Random?
Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds
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Survival of the Fittest Part 2
Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 11:32 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 55 seconds
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Rosalind Franklin
Published: Feb. 8, 2016, 6 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
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An Interview With Emma Darwin
Published: Jan. 25, 2016, 6 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds
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Convergent Evolution
Published: Jan. 18, 2016, 6 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds
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An Interview With Jonathan Tweet
Published: Jan. 4, 2016, 6 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
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Are We Still Evolving?
Published: Dec. 28, 2015, 6 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds
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The Evolution of Music
Published: Dec. 7, 2015, 6 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 49 seconds
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Math and Maupertuis
Published: Nov. 30, 2015, 6 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds
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Misconceptions About Evolution & Natural Selection
Published: Nov. 9, 2015, 6 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 8 seconds
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An Explosion of Cambrian Proportions
Published: Nov. 2, 2015, 6 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds
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Radiation and DNA
Published: Oct. 19, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds
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Mendel and His Peas
Published: Oct. 12, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 41 seconds
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Our Unique Species
Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds
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Master Switches
Published: Sept. 14, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
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The Predictive Power of Evolution
Published: Sept. 7, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds
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The Strange Case of Richard Owen
Published: Aug. 31, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 26 seconds
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The Hobbits of Flores
Published: Aug. 10, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds
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Evolutionary Psychology
Published: Aug. 3, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 43 seconds
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The Missing Link
Published: July 27, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 53 seconds
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Self-Directed Evolution
Published: July 20, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds
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Mitochondrial Eve
Published: July 13, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds
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Punctuated Equilibrium
Published: June 22, 2015, 5 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds
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The Piltdown Man
Published: June 15, 2015, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds
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Darwin’s Bulldog
Published: June 8, 2015, 9:53 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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Neanderthalis Extinctus
Published: June 1, 2015, 9:44 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds
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The Neanderthal
Published: May 25, 2015, 9:34 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds
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Non-Overlapping Magisteria
Published: May 11, 2015, 9:02 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds
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Survival of the Fittest?
Published: April 27, 2015, 9:11 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds
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Putting the Selection in Sex
Published: April 20, 2015, 9:14 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds
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Warm Blooded Dinosaurs
Published: April 13, 2015, 10:24 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Published: April 6, 2015, 9:11 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds
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A Whale of a Tale
Published: March 30, 2015, 9:27 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds
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An Interview With Charles Darwin
Published: March 23, 2015, 9:48 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds
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Mistakes Were Made
Published: March 16, 2015, 9:58 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds
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Is Everything Related?
Published: March 9, 2015, 9:53 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds
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Fossil Dating
Published: March 2, 2015, 10:05 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds
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Robert Chambers
Published: Feb. 23, 2015, 10:14 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 23 seconds
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The Case of Patrick Matthew
Published: Feb. 16, 2015, 10:46 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 11 seconds
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The Work of WC Wells
Published: Feb. 9, 2015, 10:20 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds
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Unlucky Lamarck
Published: Feb. 2, 2015, 11:03 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds
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Erasmus Darwin
Published: Jan. 26, 2015, 10:33 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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Hutton’s Hypothesis
Published: Jan. 19, 2015, 10 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 49 seconds
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Diderot’s Dream – Updated
Published: Jan. 12, 2015, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds
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Of Mermaids and Men
Published: Jan. 5, 2015, 10:39 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds
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Lucretius – Evolution’s Poet
Published: Dec. 29, 2014, 11:07 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds
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The Father of Zoology
Published: Dec. 22, 2014, 9:59 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds
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Darwin and God
Published: Dec. 15, 2014, 10:55 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds
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Darwin or Design
Published: Dec. 8, 2014, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
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Darwin’s Doubts
Published: Dec. 1, 2014, 10:13 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds
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The Beginning: Out of the Sea
Published: Nov. 24, 2014, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
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The Beginning: An Arms Race
Published: Nov. 17, 2014, 10:50 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds
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The Beginning: Multicellularity Rules
Published: Nov. 10, 2014, 9:49 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds
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The Beginning: Sexual Reproduction
Published: Nov. 3, 2014, 10:43 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds
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The Beginning: Cyanobacteria
Published: Oct. 27, 2014, 10:09 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 29 seconds
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The Beginning: Life
Published: Oct. 20, 2014, 10:06 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Published: Oct. 6, 2014, 10:08 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 19 seconds
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Why Darwin Matters
Published: Sept. 29, 2014, 9:05 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds
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On the Origin of Species
Published: Sept. 22, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
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Darwin: The Calm Before the Storm
Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 9 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 14 seconds
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Darwin On The HMS Beagle
Published: Sept. 8, 2014, 9:52 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds
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Darwin Before the Beagle
Published: Sept. 3, 2014, 5:42 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Introducing Evolution Talk!
Published: Aug. 31, 2014, 12:04 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds
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