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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on February 12th, 2020.

I'm Steve Merski.

It's Darwin Day. Charles Darwin was born on this date in 1809. So we'll talk a bit about evolution on this episode, but in a fun and unexpected way.

I want to know what killed these tribles. I haven't figured out what keeps them alive yet.

No, we won't be talking to Kirk or McCoy, but we will chat with Muhammad Noor.

He's a biologist at Duke University specializing in genetics and evolution.

And he's the author of the 2018 book, Live Long and Evolve, What Star Trek can teach us

about evolution, genetics, and life on other worlds.

The paperback edition is coming out on February 25th. us about evolution, genetics, and life on other worlds.

The paperback edition is coming out on February 25th.

I spoke to Muhammad Noor by phone.

I'm going to read a line from your book, Chapter 5,

because I think a lot of people are going to go right to chapter 5.

Probably true.

So here we go.

Given that interspecies mating is uncommon on Earth, it appears unusually common among the humanoid species depicted in the various Star Trek series.

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