Evolutionary Ancestors w/ Neil Shubin

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Cara is thrilled to have the opportunity to continue her conversation with paleontologist, geneticist, anatomist, and popular science author Dr. Neil Shubin (Your Inner Fish, The Universe Within). They discuss Tiktaalik's place in our evolutionary past, along with new technologies and techniques that continue to unify Darwin's prescient theory and provide new clues to the great tree of life here on Earth. Also included: answers to brilliant questions asked by previous Talk Nerdy guest, young Stella Krone.

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0:00.0	Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It is Monday, May 2nd and I'm your host
0:21.8	Kara Santa Maria. This week's episode is brought to you by
0:26.0	you. Thank you so much for ensuring that talk nerdy stays possible week
0:31.0	after week and ensuring that it remains 100% free to download
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1:00.8	via PayPal or Patreon. Now through the Patreon portal I want to
1:06.1	thank a handful of you who especially help make the show possible this week.
1:12.0	First I want to thank Phil T-Bare and Timothy Glover and I
1:16.2	also want to thank Charles Payette, Jafe, the Honorable Husband, Gabriel
1:21.6	Felipe had a mio Gonzalez, Ken Fyfer, Brian Holden, and last but absolutely not least, probably
1:32.1	the opposite of least, best, I don't want to say best there are so many great people here
1:36.5	but thank you thank you thank you so much to Jeffrey Sewall for your continued contributions
1:42.4	all right guys I'm really really excited for your continued contributions.
1:42.8	All right guys, I'm really, really excited
1:45.1	about this week's episode because I had a chance.
1:48.4	If you remember, I think two weeks ago,
1:50.5	we aired an episode with Neil Schuben and it was pretty short because I had to go visit him in Irvine where he was doing a colloquium and he just had a really tight schedule. But what an incredible
2:06.0	guy, he wanted to make sure that we were able to do a full episode and do it justice so he agreed to chat with me one more time
2:17.6	remotely from his home in Chicago and oh my gosh we just had so much fun so I'm really pleased to welcome for a second
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