Our Lives Matter S1E10: A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology

Our Lives Matter

Feb 01 2024 | 00:20:23

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Show Notes

There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today. We can fill in that part of the story by talking about the meanings of vocabulary words from biology. Each of those words refers to a concept in biology that tells a story about some part of evolution. Each vocabulary word is a piece of the puzzle, and together they tell a much bigger story of the patterns of life. ACT I Scene 1 [90 bpm] Our story of the evolution of…

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