Scott Solomon is an evolutionary biologist, professor, and author.
Since the earliest days of science fiction, we’ve wondered what it would mean to live on Mars. Today, that question is no longer hypothetical. As humanity moves closer to becoming an interplanetary species, a new question emerges: what happens when humans are born and raised on another world? How would Mars change our bodies, our minds, and the future of evolution?
Expect to learn if it is possible for humans to live on Mars, how humans who were born on Mars will evolve with their new environment, if there have ever been any astronauts who have had sex in space, what being on Mars could do to morph the human brain, and how living in space will change our Biology and much more…
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“She's in Robin Dunbarz lab at University of Oxford. She's wonderful. And she wrote a book called Life of Dad. She's writing another one about dads actually as well. And she tells the story about how dads saved the human race because babies' heads got too big. And her point is that babies”
"What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to en…
“the individuals are that are the founders have this like really disproportionate effect on what happens later, like they're really influential. Have you ever read Seveneves by Neil Stevenson? I have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly what the founder effect is, right? That's right.”
“oh, sorry, go ahead. Well, so there's kind of this like famous book from I think in 1979 called the right stuff by Tom Wolf. I don't know if I've ever read that. It's like one of the classic accounts of the early days of the US space program, but that title that idea of the right stuff,”