Rewind Ep. 20 - Charles Darwin | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Original airdate: March 26, 2019 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. Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts! Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to find great SciShow Tangents merch! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen [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 #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents