Evolution Update

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🗓️ 14 June 2006

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode, freelance reporter Beth Baldwin talks about some of the goings-on at the recent annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, entitled "Genomes, Evolution, and Bioinformatics." And Kate Wong, Scientific American's paleontology and anthropology expert, talks about recent findings in human evolution as well as a new, unusual dinosaur discovery. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Organizations and websites mentioned on this podcast include the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, http://www.smbe.org; the conference page, http://www.smbe.org/geb; the Paleoanthropology Society, http://www.paleoanthro.org; the Scientific American blog, blog.sciam.com; the Scientific American Digital Archive, www.sciamdigital.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.8	Welcome to Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting June 14th.
0:56.0	I'm Steve Murski.
0:58.6	This week on the podcast, an evolution update.
1:03.5	We'll talk to freelance reporter Beth Baldwin, who recently attended a big molecular biology and evolution meeting, and scientific Americans paleontology and anthropology expert Kate Wong.
1:08.9	We'll talk about some new wrinkles in human evolution that she found out about at another conference.
1:14.0	Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.
1:17.7	First up, Beth Baldwin.
1:19.2	She's an attorney, which may give her a special insight into evolution, seeing as how Darwin called his presentation of the case for it, quote, one long argument, end quote. Baldwin also
1:29.5	closely follows evolution news. I met her at the Dover Intelligent Design trial, and she reports on
1:35.3	the subject for radio. I called her at her home in Erie, Pennsylvania. Hi, Beth. How are you?
1:40.9	I'm good. Steve. How are you? I'm fine. Good to talk to you. So you just returned
1:44.9	recently from the annual meeting of the Society from Molecular Biology and Evolution,
1:50.3	and the specific conference was called Genomes Evolution and Bioinformatics, right? That's right.
1:57.1	What really stood out for you at the meeting? Well, there were a number of keynote
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