Episode 26: Stories of Evolution

Dr. Sean B. Carroll returns to the show this week to celebrate Darwin Day (Feb. 12, 2009).  With two new books out (Remarkable Creatures and Into the Jungle), Dr. Carroll discusses the power of storytelling in teaching science.  In fact, he even treats us with a story of how Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace and Henry Walter Bates all contributed in developing the theory of evolution.

Brian and Dr. Carroll

Links:

• seanbcarroll.com
• Sean B. Carroll’s Lab
• About Sean B. Carroll
• The Science of Evolution (video from the New York Times)

Books:

• Remarkable Creatures (at amazon.com)
• Into the Jungle (at amazon.com)
• The Making of the Fittest (at amazon.com)
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful (at amazon.com)

• Read and Download full text of On the Origin of Species
• Download On the Origin of Species Audiobook from Librivox
  

Other Darwin/Evolution Coverage:

• NY Times: Evolution
• Nature Celebrates Darwin 200
• Discover Magazine does Darwin
• 12 Elegant Examples of Evolution from Wired Magazine
• Darwin and Wallace Shift the Paradigm from wired.com
• All of Science Owes Debt to Darwin from the San Francisco Chronicle
• The Evolution of Darwin’s Theory from the LA Times
• I Am Evolution (from NPR’s This I Believe)
• Darwin, Britain’s Hero, is still Controversial in US (from NPR)
• Celebration Darwin’s Evolution Revolution (NPR)
• At Home with Darwin… 200 Years On (BBC)
• National Geographic: What Darwin Didn’t Know
• National Geographic: Modern Darwins
  
• National Geographic: Darwin’s First Clues
• National Geographic: The Man Who Wasn’t Darwin (Wallace)
• Evolution Wine

Direct download: LOL26.mp3