Sunday, January 10, 2016

Big Picture Science for Monday January 11, 2016 - Apt to Adapt














Big Picture Science - Apt to Adapt

ENCORE: If you move with the times, you might stick around long enough to pass on your genes. And that is adaptation and evolution, in a nutshell.

But humans are changing their environment faster than their genes can keep pace. This has led to a slew of diseases – from backache to diabetes – according to one evolutionary biologist. And our technology may not get us out of the climate mess we’ve created. So just how good are we at adapting to the world around us?

Find out as you also discover why you should run barefoot … the history of rising tides … why one dedicated environmentalist has thrown in the towel … and an answer to the mystery of why Hawaiian crickets suddenly stopped chirping.

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This encore podcast was first released on June 11, 2014

Download episode at: http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/Apt_to_Adapt

You can listen to this and other episodes at http://bigpicturescience.org/, and be sure to check out Blog Picture Science, the companion blog to the radio show.

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