Dr. Melissa Ilardo
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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So to wait for something that comes up that's actually beneficial can take forever because you have to have exactly the right thing.
The genome's huge.
So when those changes are happening, for it to
not only happen in the right place, but to not cause problems takes a really long time.
So some of the faster examples that we know of evolution, especially in humans, come from when there's variation that's just already there. And, you know, it's not particularly advantageous, like I mentioned, with Tibetans until you move into a particular environment or until you start practicing a certain activity like breath hold diving. And so, you
So some of the faster examples that we know of evolution, especially in humans, come from when there's variation that's just already there.
And, you know, it's not particularly advantageous, like I mentioned, with Tibetans until you move into a particular environment or until you start practicing a certain activity like breath hold diving.
And so, you
You know, we have we call it standing variation. Just there's all these differences between all of us humans on Earth. And so when you have variation that's beneficial in the right environment, then evolution can happen a lot faster.
You know, we have we call it standing variation.
Just there's all these differences between all of us humans on Earth.
And so when you have variation that's beneficial in the right environment, then evolution can happen a lot faster.
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely. And I also love the X-Men, although if you ever want to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi movie, watch it with an evolutionary biologist. Noted. Yeah, so there are these incredible people, well, really all around the world, but I started my work in Indonesia called The Bajo. They are a group of what's called sea nomads.
And I also love the X-Men, although if you ever want to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi movie, watch it with an evolutionary biologist.
Noted.
Yeah, so there are these incredible people, well, really all around the world, but I started my work in Indonesia called The Bajo.
They are a group of what's called sea nomads.
So sea nomads are these people who spend their whole lives essentially at sea traditionally. They live on houseboats and everything they need they get from the sea. And they do this through fishing, of course, and other things like that, but also through an incredible amount of breath hold diving. So they're extremely good at this. They can hold their breath for many minutes at a time.
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