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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Molecular Phylogenetics w/ David Quammen

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara connects with science writer David Quammen to talk about his new book, “The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life.” They discuss the complexity of modern evolutionary theory, from classical Darwinian natural selection to recent discoveries in the field of molecular phylogenetics.

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0:19.3

Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday January 14th 2018. Nope. It's 2019.

0:21.8

Ah, damn it. I knew I was going to do it one of these days on the show.

0:26.0

I might as well just do it and not edit it out.

0:28.0

I'm definitely leaving that because I know that you have all done it too within the last couple of weeks.

0:32.0

It's January 14th 2019 and I'm

0:35.9

your host Kara Santa Maria. I want to thank you guys for coming back. I shouldn't

0:40.6

say week after week like I always do but year after year to listen to talk

0:44.2

nerdy. Can you believe that we are like what episode number is this?

0:50.3

240? That's bananas. It's such an accomplishment for all of us

0:56.4

together and I couldn't have done it without you. So first and foremost I want to

1:00.4

thank you from the bottom of my heart. Now if you want to support the show beyond

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basis.

1:21.1

As little as a dollar an episode really does go an awful long way.

1:25.7

This week I want to thank the top supporters.

1:28.4

At the highest level, they include Rob Shrek.

1:31.1

Thank you so much.

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I really, really, honestly couldn't do it without you. And I also want to thank

1:36.8

Phil T-Bere, the zombie drummer, David J. E. Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Charles Payette, Jaith, Gabrielle, Felipe

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how Rimeel Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall,

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