Discovering Darwin

03/15/2024

New episode about s*x, gender, and s*xual behavior up now! Learn about how Nemo’s dad should have responded to her death (spoiler: it is NOT a Disney-friendly story!). http://discoveringdarwin.blogspot.com/2024/03/season-5-episode-6-gender-bender.html !

03/12/2024

We’re celebrating Spring Break with a field trip! Lovely drive to pick up more liquid courage for our next episode!

11/06/2023

In this episode, Sarah, Mark, and Ja Mes discuss chapters 9 and 10 of Bitch covering the conundrum of menopause and the crafty ways females can reproduce without males. Art credit to The Nautalis whose image was the first supplied by an image search for “evolutionary mystery menopause.” We love a superhero grandma! http://discoveringdarwin.blogspot.com/2023/11/in-this-episode-sarah-mark-and-james.html?m=1

10/30/2023

We really need to get more creative with our pre-postcast photos, but we’re back! We had lots of thoughts (3 hours of recording time!!) on Lucy Cooke’s chapters on menopause and female-only reproduction. Once James wrangles our ramblings into something more intelligible, we’ll pass it on to you!

09/25/2023

New episode up now!! Mark Jackson and Ja Mes Wagner are just Kens in Sarah’s world of female aggression and alliances.

09/18/2023

Today we discussed aggressive females and power brokers. TL;DR Im a Barbie girl in a world of Kens. It’s gonna be a good one (once James makes Sarah and Mark sound smart via editing!! 😂)

07/25/2023

New episode is up! Fair warning this episode includes discussion of genitalia, or**sm, and forced copulation. Also, with Stitcher soon going away, follow us on Apple or Google podcast apps.

podcast about evolution, speciation, species, Charles Darwin, natural selection, s*xual selection and other ideas that Darwin developed.

07/23/2023

Guess what we did today…

06/22/2023

Join us for our second episode about Lucy Cooke’s book Bitch. We discuss the reexamination of a classic paper by Bateman that supposedly established that only males benefit from multiple matings, monkeys o-faces, the truth of te**es, the one thing Mark learned in high school, and lean in on James’s expertise in spiders to understand s*xual cannibalism. Come for the science, stay for the social critique. http://discoveringdarwin.blogspot.com/2023/06/season-5-episode-2-your-o-face.html?m=1

05/04/2023

Weeeeee’rrrrreeeeee baaaaccckkk! The first episode of Season 5 which will cover Lucy Cooke’s Bitch posted today. Sarah clearly set a goal to demonstrate that females are NOT passive.

podcast about evolution, speciation, species, Charles Darwin, natural selection, s*xual selection and other ideas that Darwin developed.

04/24/2023

We’re recording this weekend, so you still have time to share your thoughts and questions about chapters 1-3 of Bitch by Lucy Cooke!

04/15/2023

Hello podcast friends!! We sure do miss drinking Mark’s bourbon, talking evolution, and challenging Ja Mes Wagner’s editing abilities so we’re going to be putting out a limited series on “Bitch: On the Female of the Species.” It’s a modern examination of Darwin’s views on s*xual selection with an emphasis on what a broadening of participation in science has meant for evolutionary biology. We plan to record by the end of the month so you have time to get the book and read along with us. We’d love to get your questions and comments ahead of the first episode (Chapters 1-3), so slide into our DMs!