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Evolution Soup YouTube Channel & Audio Podcast - in association with Talk Beliefs YouTube channel - brings you interviews and information for everyday audiences on the fascinating facts of evolution and natural selection. Hosted by Mark from @evolution_soup and @TalkBeliefs.

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Evolution Soup YouTube Channel & Audio Podcast - in association with Talk Beliefs YouTube channel - brings you interviews and information for everyday audiences on the fascinating facts of evolution and natural selection. Hosted by Mark from @evolution_soup and @TalkBeliefs.

    HOMO NALEDI: The Inside Story ~ with NatGeo Explorer KENEILOE MOLOPYANE

    HOMO NALEDI: The Inside Story ~ with NatGeo Explorer KENEILOE MOLOPYANE

    Dr Keneiloe Molopyane is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey and a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer, 2021. Having begun as an underwater archaeologist, she ended up as an 'underground astronaut' squeezing through the claustrophobic passageways of South Africa's Rising Star Cave, site of a massive cache of bones belonging to hominid, Homo naledi.

    MARK from Evolution Soup dives deep with Keneiloe, in a fully-illustrated interview exploring the twists and turns of the Rising Star Cave, the bones that were found there, and the tantalizing theories as to why these mysterious hominids deposited their dead there...

    Original July 2021 YouTube Interview: https://bit.ly/3LaQXd8


    LINKS FOR KENEILOE MOLOPYANE:

    TWITTER: @Keneiloe
    https://twitter.com/Keneiloe

    INSTAGRAM: @Keneiloe
    https://www.instagram.com/keneiloe

    YouTube: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3wQwTne



    WITS UNIVERSITY:

    MAIN SITE: https://www.wits.ac.za/

    Keneiloe's  Page: https://www.is.gd/OKNHSp



    Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey: @PerotMuseumCEHJ



    LEE BERGER:

    TWITTER: @LeeRberger
    https://twitter.com/LeeRberger



    NATGEO:

    SITE: htt
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    Life's Big Bang - The Story of the Cambrian Explosion ~ with SHUHAI XIAO

    Life's Big Bang - The Story of the Cambrian Explosion ~ with SHUHAI XIAO

    What ignited the famed Cambrian Explosion? The majority of today's animal phyla got their start in this strange yet exciting period of time over five hundred million years ago. What triggered this radiation of life, some with shells, others with skeletons? What were the first predators? And what came before this period?

    DR SHUHAI XIAO is a paleobiologist and geobiologist who studies the interactions between the biosphere and its environments at critical transitions in Earth history, particularly during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition.

    MARK from Evolution Soup chats with Shuhai about the Cambrian, why it may have produced so many new animal types, and the even more mysterious period of time before the Cambrian, the period known as the Ediacaran.

    Original YouTube interview:
    https://youtu.be/7hzXhfajN_4



    LINKS FOR SHUHAI XIAO:

    SITE: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/geobiology

    TWITTER: @XiaoShuhai
    https://twitter.com/xiaoshuhai

    LINKEDIN:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuhai-xiao-3439b915/

    FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/shuhai.xiao

    LAB: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Shuhai-Xiao-Lab


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    The Seven-Million-Year-Long Journey - Why Humans Stood Upright ~ with JEREMY DESILVA

    The Seven-Million-Year-Long Journey - Why Humans Stood Upright ~ with JEREMY DESILVA

    What caused the ancestors of human beings start walking upright? The seven-million-year-long-journey started in the trees of Africa and culminates in Homo sapiens dominance of the globe. But the answers to 'why' and 'when' are still elusive.

    JEREMY DESILVA is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. Jeremy ('Jerry') specializes in the locomotion of the first apes and early human ancestors.  His most recent work focuses on the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage.

    In this Evolution Soup Special, host MARK talks with Jerry about the various theories relating to bipedality and specifically about recent hominid discoveries Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi.

    ORIGINAL VIDEO https://bit.ly/3YKu6d9


    LINKS FOR JEREMY DESILVA:

    SITE: https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva

    TWITTER: @desilva_jerry


    BOOK:

    First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human: https://amzn.to/3i6xZX6


    SEE ALSO:

    Dartmouth College: https://home.dartmouth.edu/

    Dartmouth College flyover footage by Danny Katz 

    Lee Berger's Fossil Vault YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zGJ4V8


    Boston Science Museum: https://www.mos.org/



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    MEGALODON - The Shark That Ate Whales ~ with JACK COOPER

    MEGALODON - The Shark That Ate Whales ~ with JACK COOPER

    The Meg! Did it really exist? (Spoiler alert: it did). This giant of the Miocene seas has been of keen interest to paleontologists for decades. It's true dimensions have never been known until recently.

    JACK COOPER is a PhD student working on the functional diversity of sharks through time. His current work focuses on the size, dimensions and reconstruction of the Megalodon shark.

    MARK from Evolution Soup talks to Jack about the history of its discovery, what it ate, where it swam, and the new research that he and mentor Catalina Pimiento have recently published, revealing this beast's true, awesome size.


    #shark #megalodon #sharkweek


    LINKS FOR JACK COOPER:

    TWITTER: @CooperPalaeo
    https://twitter.com/CooperPalaeo

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jack-Cooper-18

    Body dimensions of the extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon: a 2D reconstruction: https://go.nature.com/3ge98hB

    Jack guesting on 'Let's Jaws For A Minute' (Podcast): https://apple.co/3hVIDzS

    German documentary featuring Jack: https://is.gd/BmGfzp

    Let's Jaws TWITTER: https://twitter.com/jawsforaminute


    Pimiento Research Group:

    https://www.catalinapimiento.com/

    @pimientoc
    @PimientoGroup
    https://twitter.com/PimientoGroup


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    #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleo #paleontology #paleoartist #Homosapiens #hominid #artwork #Darwin #cave #bone #fossils #Neanderthal #australopithecus #hominin #extinct #animals #science #anthropology #paleoanthropology #genus #species #africa #skull #skulls #naturalselection #lucy #paleontology #megalodon #shark  #sharks #sharkteeth #sharktooth #megalodontooth #fossilhunting #ocean #paleontology  #greatwhiteshark #SharkWeek


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    Evolution Gone Wrong? Why Our Bodies Work (or Don't!) ~ with ALEX BEZZERIDES

    Evolution Gone Wrong? Why Our Bodies Work (or Don't!) ~ with ALEX BEZZERIDES

    Evolution is a marvel, but - bad backs? Crooked teeth? Allergies? What gives?

    ALEX BEZZERIDES is a professor of biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho, where he teaches a wide range of biology classes, from human anatomy and physiology to entomology. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology and a PhD in neurobiology and behavior.

    MARK from Evolution Soup discusses Alex's new book 'Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)', delving into why the evolutionary process rewarded us with successes as well as lumping us with some pretty annoying failures!

    (Apologies for variable signal quality during a few  portions of this interview)

    #evolution #science #anatomy


    LINKS FOR ALEX BEZZERIDES:

    TWITTER: @alexbezzerides
    https://twitter.com/alexbezzerides


    BOOK:

    Publisher: https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/alex-bezzerides

    Amazon: https://amzn.to/3oNp2U0


    SEE ALSO:

    Lewis-Clark State College: https://www.lcsc.edu


    First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva: https://amzn.to/3i6xZX6



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    Did Star Trek Get Evolution Right? ~ with Star Trek Science Advisor DR MOHAMED NOOR

    Did Star Trek Get Evolution Right? ~ with Star Trek Science Advisor DR MOHAMED NOOR

    DR MOHAMED NOOR is a Professor of Biology at Duke University involved in evolutionary genetics research , looking into how genetic changes contribute to the formation of new species. A keen Star Trek aficionado, he is the author of the book Live Long and Evolve and serves as a Science Advisor on the Paramount Plus series, Star Trek: Discovery.

    MARK from Evolution Soup opens hailing frequencies with Dr Noor to discuss how the Star Trek franchise utilizes science and especially the science of biological evolution. Did the writers get it right? Could there be humanoids all throughout our galaxy? And what about tribbles?

    #evolution #startrek #science


    Original YouTube video interview : https://youtu.be/fHyvXGjqq50



    LINKS FOR DR MOHAMED NOOR:

    BOOK: Live Long and Evolve: https://amzn.to/3iiW0s9​

    Website: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/noor
    Noor Lab: https://sites.google.com/view/noor-lab

    Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mafnoor​
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mafnoor/​

    BioTrekkie Explains [YouTube]: https://bit.ly/3w2e92X
    BioTrekkie Site: https://www.biotrekkie.com


    SEE ALSO:

    Science Division collectibles:

    SITE: https://sciencediv.com/
    App Enabled Tribble: https://sciencediv.com/products/star-trek-app-enabled-tribble


    Jayne Brook: https://twitter.com/thejaynebrook




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