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Jul 4, 2023 24 min

Evolution through natural selection: “I choose you, Darwin!”

from Ideas Worth Exploring Hosted by Mark McDonald

Unlike in Pokemon, evolution in our world happens slowly, over many generations. In this episode, we talk about how all life on earth is part of the same family and arose from a single common ancestor through a branching pattern of evolution, and how this happens through natural selection, or “survival and reproduction of the fittest”. Also, whales have fingers. I thought you ought to know.

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