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First Aired - 01/11/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides continues his discussion on evolution and Darwin with Saul Scheinbach.
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The Naturalist Introduction (10:00)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Saul Scheinbach, Tekserve, Darwin, Evolution, genes, embryo development, cells, genes are controlled, organism development, fruit flies, master control genes, the fins of a fish created the limbs of all four legged creatures we see today, we are all related, Darwin knew that, tree of life, The Voyage of the Beagle, British Navy, Galapagos, organisms on different island are slightly different from each other, finches, he thinks they are a different species of birds, he doesn't know what they are until he brings them back to England,Evolution: The Ground Finch (10:00)
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finches, they killed the bird and took the skin home to study it, finches were adapting to different island, Daphne Major, Robinson Crusoe, DNA, body measurements, ground finches, rainfall, Hawaii, most years they barely get 5 inches of rain, in an El Nino year they can get 50 inches of rain, ground finches eat seeds, walnuts, what drove the change in the finches beaks?, these birds are highly adaptable, survival of the fittest, the cactus finch, the birds with the biggest beaks could survive best, 99.9% of all species that ever existed on the planet are now extinct,Blind Creatures in Caves (20:00)
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blind cave fish, blind animals living in caves, natural selection, The Origin Of Species, why do men have nipples?, in evolution use it or lose it doesn't apply, all organisms that go into the caves lose their eyes, mutations, master control genes, eye loss is a byproduct of other changes, human genome project, corn has more genes than we do, we are egocentric as humans, our admiration of ourselves stop us from accepting Darwin's theory, religion, culture, astronomers thought the Earth was at the center of the universe, Milky Way galaxy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/04/2010 12:00PM
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This week on the naturalist, Saul Scheinbach comes by to talk about Darwin's "theory" of natural selection and evolution.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Evolution (12:52)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Tekserve, molecular genetics, biology, evolution, Science Watch, www.hras.org, Charles Darwin was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln, his book sold out the first day it was released, many people have trouble believing evolution, only 40% of Americans believe evolution is true, evolutionary science, a species is a freely interbreeding population that produces viable fertile young, a mule is not a species, a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey, Darwin said that species form through a process called natural selection, there is a struggle in nature, the struggle for existence, resources are finite but organisms keep multiplying, adaptation, humans, milk, lactose intolerance, winter,Charles Darwin & Natural Selection (11:11)
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natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing the world, people don't have trouble with Newton's theory, gravity, these ideas don't hold up at the subatomic level, when we look at life around us we see evolution, common ancestors, everything we know in biology backs up Darwin's theory, nothing in biology works without evolution, The Museum Of Natural History, Extreme Mammals, religion, monkeys, how do new species form?, Darwin didn't know anything about genes, reproductive isolation, physical change in the genitals, often times its a change in behavior, extreme courtship behavior, new species are forming all the time, Stickleback fish,Genes & DNA (17:57)
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a gene is a stretch of DNA, DNA is genetic material, it can make exact copies of itself, every organism has DNA, there are four letters that make up DNA, A T C and G, a gene can be a thousand or more letters, proteins, controlling genes, melanin, sickle cell anemia, the genome project, humans have 23,000 genes, a chicken has the same amount, corn has 32,000, the tree of life, mutations, sex, mixing up genes, sexual reproduction, The Origin Of Species, blue eyes is a mutation that occurred 6,000 years ago, Darwin's family was very religious, he was nervous about publishing his works, he held off on publishing his papers, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin panicked when he found out Wallace was on the same track, he submitted the papers immediately,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/17/2013 01:00PM
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Will "natural" health and medicine practices save the world? On this week's episode of Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer chats with freelance journalist Nathanael Johnson about everything from microbes to community gardens. Nathanael's first book "All Natural*: *A Skeptic's Quest to Discover If the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier", separates fact from faith when it comes to natural practices. Tune into today's program to get more insight into the themes and ideas explored in the book. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
"I grew up in a family that believed it was better to embrace nature rather than using technology to protect ourselves against nature." [02:14]
"Scientists say humans are super organisms - we're not unique systems, we're an incorporation of our environment in a very fundamental way" [05:45]
--Writer Nathanael Johnson on Straight, No Chaser
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"All Natural" (17:10)
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Nathanael Johnson, natural medicine, health, holistic medicine, microbials, germs, microbes, raw milk, auto immune disorders, sugar,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
