Me and you and evolution, too -- The great creationism debate -- Creation and the second law of thermodynamics -- Bottom-up design -- A deep dive into deep time -- On the origin of evolution -- Lamarck and his not-acquired traits -- My prom and sexual selection -- The tale of the red queen -- Dogs are all dogs -- The tree of life-or is it a bush? -- Biodiversity comes in the territory -- Fossil records and explosions -- Mass extinction and you -- Ancient dinosaurs and the asteroid test -- Punctuated equilibrium -- Contingency, bottlenecking, and founding -- Mosquitos in the tube -- Convergence, analog, and homology -- What good is half a wing? -- Human bodies are walking, talking, and good-enough -- Evolution is why we don't believe in evolution -- Micro or macro- it's all evolution -- Michael Faraday and the joy of discovery -- Medicine and you- evolution at the doctor's office -- Antibiotic drug resistance- evolution strikes back -- The irresistable urge of altruism -- Games species play -- Costly signals -- genetically modified foods: what the GMF? -- Human cloning- not cool -- Our skin colors -- Is the human species still evolving? -- Astrobiologically speaking : is anyone there? -- The sparks that started it all -- A second genesis-of life? -- Life's cosmic imperative.
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