The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Chicago

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage in Chicago, Illinois, to discuss fossil records and evolution. They are joined on stage by host of NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" Peter Sagal, comedian and Saturday Night Live alumnus Julia Sweeney, palaeontologist Paul Sereno and evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne.

(Photo: Robin Ince (left) and Brian Cox)

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:03.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use,
0:07.0	go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts.
0:10.0	Hello, I'm Professor Brian Cox and I'm a broadcasts. we've decided to take our show The Infinite Monkey Cage on tour across North America
0:24.8	to scrutinise the possible differences in thinking about particle physics, evolutionary biology
0:29.5	and very big dinosaurs.
0:31.7	This is what happened when we went to Chicago.
0:33.4	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome for the first time live in Chicago, the infinite monkey
0:38.4	cage with Mr. Robert Inks and Professor Brian Cox. Hello.
0:45.0	We are very, this is the first time that we've done the show in Chicago.
0:50.0	We're very excited to be here and it's brilliant as well because one of our guests
0:53.7	who said that when they were saying to their girlfriend that they were going to
0:57.0	do this show she went uhhuh and he went it's quite good it's on the radio in
1:00.4	Britain and stuff in a podcast in the US it's's with Robin Hinthe and Brian Cox and she went
1:05.3	really? He's the one that's always smiling. We are going to be talking today about the importance of the fossil record.
1:15.3	We're going to be talking about the new cutting edge ideas within evolution, new theories, new ideas.
1:22.1	Indeed, what is the title of today show
1:23.7	Professor Grant Cox is fossil records and other archaeological hits and so please
1:28.2	welcome our panel who are Paul Serino Julia Peter Siegel, and Jerry Coyne.
1:34.0	We will give a little bit of the background of the people on this panel I'm sure you know
1:43.9	the more anyway Paul Serino has been described as the Indiana Jones of
1:47.8	paleontology which mixing digging for fossils with battling the last remnants of the third Reich.
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