Evolution Out Of Whack!

Our listener, and Super Duper IFFer, Daniel asks What The IF neighbors had tanks? Imagine the block parties? No, imagine the block battles!

What happens in an ecosystem when evolution spirals out of control? How fit is FIT when survival is at stake? Gaby and Matt share lessons from Darwin and we imagine how having annoying neighbors might eventual fuel the colonization of the solar system!

Yearning For More Learning?

From WTiF’s Senior Researcher, Gabi Vardanega

• Learn more about genetic mutations from this Scitable article.

• What exactly is evolution? Check out this LiveScience piece!

• Learn more about the Bombardier beetles that Gaby mentioned in this BBCEarth Youtube video.

• What was the cold war? Read up about this part of global history in this History piece.

• Read about the Red Queen Hypothesis in this NCBI study.

• Book recommendation: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind & Guns, Germs, and Steel

Thank you Daniel from Colorado! Don’t forget to submit your own question so you can also become a Super IFFer!

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Keep On IFFin',
Philip, Matt, Gaby & Gabi