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131- The Kardashev Scale of Civilisations

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130- Photosynthesis

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129- The Most Generations at Once

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128- Can Dolphins Detect Pregnancy?

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Announcement- I've written a book!

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127- Life Expectancy of Hobbits

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126- Moles

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125- Pollinator Decline Debate Part II: A Dissenting Voice

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124- Pollinator Decline Debate Part I: Non-Bee Pollinators

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123- Calculating Inbreeding Coefficient

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122- How to Build a Phylogenetic Tree

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121- Biofilms and Alzheimer's

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Darwin Day 2026- The Ancestry of Charles Darwin

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Announcement- The F1 Generation

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120- Olive Trees

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119- The Human Era Calendar

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118- A Calendar for Mars

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117- Total Mass of Humanity's X Chromosomes

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116- Generations

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115- Pregnancy Outcomes and Interpregnancy Intervals

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114- Voyage of the Beagle Part III

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113- Sex Ratios and Family Size in the 1790 US Census

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112- How Common Are Suffix Chains?

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111- Could Two People Repopulate the Earth? Part I

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110- The World's Smallest Snake

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109- Colestein Veglin

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108- Titanoboa

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107- Pascal's Triangle in Biology

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106- Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam

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105- Former Estimates of Earth's Age

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104- Ming the Mollusc

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103- The Gaia Hypothesis

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102- Hyperdontia and Hypodontia

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101- Walruses

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100- Germ Theory and Spontaneous Generation

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99- The Laws of Thermodynamics in Evolution

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98- Cryptic Species

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97- The Hottest Summer in 2000 Years

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Darwin Day 2025- Charles Darwin Represented in Science Fiction

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96- Ancestors versus Human Population

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95- Rewind: Fossil Fuels

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94- Galactic Cycles Part II

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93- Biological Impacts of Chernobyl

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92- The UK Sand Eel Fishing Ban

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91- Climate Change and Day Length

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90- Trees on Mars

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89- Voyage of the Beagle Part II

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Update- Ask Me Anything and Patreon Question

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88- Different Types of Cousin

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87- The Permian Extinction

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Island Folk 4- Island Invasion and Extinction

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86- The Psychology of Namesaking

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85- Rewind: Mitosis and Meiosis

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84- Habitat

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83- The Four Humours

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82- Dormice in the UK

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81- Superfetation and Superfecundation

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80- Endoskeletons, Exoskeletons and Hydrostatic Skeletons

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79- Bee Declines in the UK

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78- Biomes

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77- The Economics of Climate Change

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76- Mithridatism

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75- The Plague of Justinian

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74- Red Hair

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73- Islamic Golden Age Evolutionary Theory Part II

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Darwin Day 2024- Voyage of the Beagle Part I

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72- Alien Species and the Aldrovandi Cache

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71- Galactic Cycles in Evolutionary History

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70- The Microbiome and Microbiota

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Island Folk 3- Saint Helena and Anthropogenic Impact

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69- Punctuated Equilibrium, Phyletic Gradualism and Creationist Philosophy

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68- Mammoths and the Pyramids

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67- Mythological Hybrids and Chromosome Count

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Introducing- Autocrat

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66- The KT Extinction

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65- The Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter

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Announcement- YouTube Community

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64- New Global Heat Records

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63- Hypothetical Galactic Population Size

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62- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Update- Podcast schedule

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Darwin Day 2023- Historical Context to Charles Darwin

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61- Monophyly, Paraphyly and Polyphyly

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Island Folk 2- Britain and the Island Fortress

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60- Porphyria

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Island Folk 1- Rapa Nui

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Announcement- Island Folk

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59- James E. Lovelock

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58- Islamic Golden Age Evolutionary Theory

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57- Benedict's Test

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Darwin Day 2022- HMS Beagle

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56- Three Types of Selection

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55- Hybridomas

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54- Bonsai Trees

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53- Grolar Bears

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52- Great American Interchange

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51- RuBisCO, C4 and CAM

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50- Kin Selection and Hamilton's Rule

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49- The Wallace Line

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48- The Creation of Chromosome 2