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What evolution is? | Natural selection | Alice Hughes | Reason with Science | Charles Darwin

03 Oct 2021

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This is the conversation with Prof. Alice Hughes. She is working at XTBG in China. Her work focuses on understanding patterns of biodiversity and drivers of biodiversity change, with an aim to form more rigorous & appropriate conservation. In this conversation we discuss about what is evolution, how it works, why it is important to study, Evolution vs intelligent design, Artificial breeding, proof of evolution and complex traits like altruism. Guest info: Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alice-Hughes-3 Twitter: https://twitter.com/AliceCHughes CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HNTYjVHFATRbARoPvs-VYFplsy6WSZpJ8CLexygh2IA/edit Episode links: Website: https://www.reasonwithscience.com/home/what-is-evolution-with-alice-hughes Youtube: https://youtu.be/N7_TKmEX_Y0 Spotify: Apple podcast: Google podcast: Follow Reason with Science: Website: https://www.reasonwithscience.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/reasonwithscience Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qFLGsPWjL4GAGidmF2nKh Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reason-with-science/id1641776894 Google podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9iMjMyNDZlOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:57 Alice's work 00:03:36 Life beyond humans 00:05:12 What Evolution by natural selection is? 00:12:12 Timescale of evolution 00:17:15 What is genetics and a gene? 00:22:25 Effects of changes in genes 00:24:01 Importance of variation in natural selection 00:25:03 Strangeness of Panda's 00:26:18 Importance of breeding for evolution 00:27:39 A walk toward our common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos 00:31:40 Success of humans in passing on their gene pools 00:35:28 Evolution of religion 00:38:53 Evolution vs Intelligent design 00:42:47 Proof of evolution 00:45:45 Sexual or asexual reproduction 00:49:37 Altruism 00:52:45 Homosexuality 00:56:24 Adoption 00:58:59 Why it is difficult to understand evolution? 01:02:23 Material to read 01:03:17 Thanks!

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