Ann Jones
speaker
552 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Ann Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I know it.
God has seen whatever you do when you're doing it.
And so I'm going to make a series about it.
And the thing is, when you really think about sex, it gets even weirder.
There's an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that then links to a production line of eggs to assemble a perfect little baby.
So many things have to line up.
Why do we do it like this?
Congratulations, you have just swiped right on an ardent adventure with me, a series where we are going to try and unpick how we, and I mean all living things really, not you and I personally, but how we went from splitting ourselves in half to double the population, to periodically feeling compelled to copulate in such a vigorous and sometimes highly embarrassing manner.
And in this first romp, we are going to time travel through Earth's history right up until it needs fresh underpants with the very first erection.
But to get there, we're going to have to go way back to the primordial soup where we're going to trace every single partner that nature has had since coming of age.
Earth, this is your sexual history
Four billion years ago.
And for the first half a billion of those years, it was just fire, brimstone, meteors.
I don't know, I wasn't there.
And then one day, we still don't know how this happened, by the way, but life just popped into existence.
From the minestrone of early Earth's oceans arose your great, great, great, great nana.
And what we think they were was these tiny little microbes.
Dr Emily Mitchell is assistant professor with the Department of Zoology at Cambridge, and she wasn't there either.
But she is as close as we can get to a time traveller, because she's a deep-time ecologist.
These were prokaryotes.
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