Part Two: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

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Summary

Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.

Sources:

https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-features/who-was-peter-kropothkin

https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/allan-antliff-memorializing-kropotkin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch07c.htm

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/1800s/uniformitarianism-charles-lyell/

https://summitborn.com/discovery-of-the-ice-age/

https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/gradualism-10/

https://strangescience.net/lyell.htm

https://medium.com/science-spectrum/how-darwin-discovered-invented-evolution-4d99aadf5656

https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing

https://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.9	CoolZone Media.
0:08.7	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff like studying glaciers.
0:12.5	I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy.
0:14.4	And with me today is Katie Golden, host of the podcast, How Glaciers Move.
0:21.6	That's, oh, close enough.
0:23.4	Creature Feature.
0:24.8	Ah, the science of organic things instead of inorganic things.
0:28.1	Yes.
0:28.5	I mean, I talk about glaciers sometimes every so often.
0:32.8	Okay.
0:33.7	See, that's what I was saying.
0:35.3	That's why I definitely knew that.
0:37.5	People should check out Creature Feature.
0:39.6	And I think, well, as you pointed out, if you like stories about animals and science, like this episode, you'll probably like it.
0:46.7	How are you doing today?
0:48.7	I'm doing great.
0:50.0	I'm excited to talk about this topic because we get to talk about a prince of evolution.
0:57.9	Yeah, totally.
0:59.9	I ended up like kind of emotional researching this more than I expected and not in the parts
1:03.9	where I expected.
1:04.9	I'm actually barely going to talk about the time he breaks out of prison, even though that's
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