In this episode I talk about the age old battle between animals that want to eat plants and plants that don't want to be eaten. One of the defenses that plants use is to create toxins that poison the animals. This is why so many plants are a source of medicines and drugs that affect just about every physiological process in the body of animals. One of the defenses of animals is to rapidly detect a poisonous plant by the taste. They do this by a rapid and specialized form of conditioning calle...
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In this episode I talk about the age old battle between animals that want to eat plants and plants that don't want to be eaten. One of the defenses that plants use is to create toxins that poison the animals. This is why so many plants are a source of medicines and drugs that affect just about every physiological process in the body of animals. One of the defenses of animals is to rapidly detect a poisonous plant by the taste. They do this by a rapid and specialized form of conditioning calle...
Episode 9 - A Short History of You: Mammals to Modern Humans
The Grand Scheme of Things
31 minutes
6 years ago
Episode 9 - A Short History of You: Mammals to Modern Humans
Here we trace the evolution of humans from mammals to modern humans. The discussion covers the extinction of the dinosaurs and how mammals took over their environmental niches; the emergence of primates from the pro simians to monkeys, apes, chimpanzees, and finally the hominids and hominins The discussion includes the discovery of Lucy and the fossilized footprints of A. afarensis, Other archaic species of Homo are mentioned including habilis, ergaster, erectus, heidelberge...
The Grand Scheme of Things
In this episode I talk about the age old battle between animals that want to eat plants and plants that don't want to be eaten. One of the defenses that plants use is to create toxins that poison the animals. This is why so many plants are a source of medicines and drugs that affect just about every physiological process in the body of animals. One of the defenses of animals is to rapidly detect a poisonous plant by the taste. They do this by a rapid and specialized form of conditioning calle...
