Charles Darwin

You might know him from his greatest hits: natural selection, Galápagos finches, and eating lots of the animals he studied… it’s Charles Darwin! This week, we’re talking about this famous biologist and some of the weirder science he did. What kind of books did he write after he published On the Origin of Species ? Why was he so disgusted by fish spitting out seeds? And was it normal to write a letter to a scientist friend and ask detailed questions about barnacle sex? Sources: [Truth or Fail] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4x38gj/darwins-monsters-parasitoid-wasps https://books.google.com/books?id=lIcoAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=charles+darwin+eyebrows&source=bl&ots=YrNkw9VczZ&sig=ACfU3U06m2pYFahEfpPveHOyT8auD0ZeXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivsMeU4LvgAhUbJzQIHUaoA5wQ6AEwFXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=charles%20darwin%20eyebrows&f=false [Fact Off] Seeds & fish: http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1683&viewtype=text&pageseq=1 https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-1681.xml http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/17/darwin-bird-vomit/#.XBlv3c9Khxw https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/article/161/1/20/2418329 Barnacles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574338/ [Ask the Science Couch] Darwin’s understanding vs. ours: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141017-how-flowers-conquered-the-world https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-darwin-didnt-know-45637001/ https://www.wired.com/2014/12/fantastically-wrong-thing-evolution-darwin-really-screwed/ http://www.esp.org/books/darwin/variation/facsimile/contents/darwin-variation-chap-27-i.pdf http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/449/Soft%20Inhertance/Geison%20-%20Pangenesis.pdf [Butt One More Thing] Darwin bark spider: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151126-the-worlds-biggest-spider-web-can-span-an-entire-river https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011234 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .