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Oh, yeah. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 86, The Evidence for Evolution.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in this episode, we're going to carry on from the episode I did way back in, I think,

2011, introduction to evolution, that's episode 21, which is a prerequisite for this show,

where I talked about some of the basic concepts of evolution, how it works, natural selection,

the origins of the idea, etc. And then I promised, at some point in the future, to do a

follow-up show discussing the evidence for evolution.

And this is that show. I finally got around to producing this episode.

So hopefully you'll enjoy it. I'm going to discuss a number of the major

different lines of evidence for evolution, including some natural and artificial examples of evolution, particularly through induced

natural selection in the artificial cases. We'll talk about the fossil record and look at some

transitional fossils. I'll talk about comparative anatomy and the molecular evidence for evolution

and biogeography. So as I said before, recommended pre-listening is episode 21, introduction to evolution,

and episode 34, 35 on DNA structure and function may be helpful for some of the stuff on

the molecular evidence, although that's probably not as necessary.

But certainly I'll be assuming that you have some idea about evolution and what it is

in this episode.

So recommend you go back and listen to episode 21 if you don't have that.

So let's make a start, and we will begin by talking a little bit about what I mean by evidence for evolution

and what constitutes evidence for evolution.

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