Was Darwin wrong? The 305th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, News, Adaptation, Modernity, Culture, Politics, Science, Evolutionary Biology

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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On this, our 305th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss evolution, including major transitions from sea to land (early amphibians), and back again (e.g. whales), and the evidence. Where should we expect gaps in the fossil record, and why? How are adaptations to space and time analogous to one another? Then: lab grown pig fat is combined with plant protein and turned into meatballs that pretend to be pork. What could go wrong? Prediction: they’ll be carcinogenic. Finally: GLP-1s—e.g. Ozemp...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast, live stream number 305.
0:11.2	Yes.
0:11.7	Hey, did it.
0:13.1	All right.
0:13.5	Number 305, I am Dr. Brett Weinstein.
0:15.6	You are Dr. Heather Heying.
0:16.9	It is downright mid-December.
0:19.0	It is mid-December and simulcast with our live stream is your most recent appearance on Joe Rogan.
0:24.2	On Joe Rogan.
0:25.0	But here's the thing.
0:26.2	I don't know how many of you know that.
0:27.5	We're not trying to send our audience away, but just so you know.
0:29.7	It is Evolution Week here on the interwebs.
0:33.4	And if you want the full strength dose, then you need to stick around for this podcast before
0:39.9	checking out the Joe Rogan podcast in which I cover an entirely different piece of the
0:44.4	evolutionary puzzle.
0:46.4	But anyway, yeah, exciting stuff.
0:50.6	We've got a local watch party going on and, uh,
0:55.8	and all,
0:57.5	all the usual stuff we could say, but really what we're going to do first is pay our rent with,
1:01.4	uh,
1:01.6	three awesome sponsors right at the top here.
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