9 - The Birds and the Bees, Sperm and Eggs (w/ Matt Fares!)

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 6 a.m.

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My earliest memories of life were whistling air and gentle clouds as the stork delivered me to my humble home: a wolfpack! As I grew older, I puzzled over the importance of reproduction and how genetic diversity played into the population-at-large around me. Today, we\\u2019ll discuss some of the reasons that DNA is important in acting as a blueprint; different ways that life has discovered to be able to reproduce; and some crazy folktales that have helped explain the birds and the bees. Let\\u2019s learn to be scientifically conversational.

For all references and supplemental information, you can navigate to\\xa0ascienceshow.com.

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