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Ep 125: Understanding Evolution

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Know thyself, goes an Ancient Greek exhortation. And yet, too many of us have little understand of how we are hardwired. To truly know ourselves, we must understand the processes of evolution: natural selection and sexual selection.

Welcome to Episode 125 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In this episode, Amit and Ajay explain why understanding natural selection changed the way they look at the world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 00:00 Packaging00:13 Intro: Know Thyself05:13 Chapter 1: Some Starting Points35:07 Chapter 2: The Mechanics of Evolution43:36 Chapter 3: Epigenetics49:49 Chapter 4: Some Examples1:08:19 Chapter 5: Evolutionary Timescales1:14:15 Chapter 6: The Brain is a Part of the Body1:18:09 Chapter 7: Closing Thoughts

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