Big Picture Science - Life Back Then
ENCORE: Time keeps on ticking, ticking … and as it does, evolution operates to produce remarkable changes in species. Wings may appear, tails disappear. Sea creatures drag themselves onto the shore and become landlubbers. But it’s not easy to grasp the expansive time scales involved in these transformative feats.
Travel through millennia, back through mega and giga years, for a sense of what can occur over deep time, from the Cambrian Explosion to the age of the dinosaurs to the rise of Homo sapiens.
Guests:
- Lorna O’Brien – Evolutionary biologist, University of Toronto
- Ivan Schwab – Professor of ophthalmology, University of California, Davis. His blog
- Don Henderson – Curator of dinosaurs, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Canada
- Gregory Cochran – Physicist, anthropologist, University of Utah
- Todd Schlenke – Biologist, Emory University
This encore podcast was first released on: April 2, 2012
Permalink: http://radio.seti.org/episodes/Life_Back_Then
You can listen to this and other episodes at http://radio.seti.org/, and be sure to check out Blog Picture Science, the companion blog to the radio show.
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