
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Around 500 million years ago, animals first ventured out of the oceans and onto land…
Since then, life has evolved in wondrous and unforeseeable ways to this new environment, with everything from dinosaurs to bats roaming around above the waves. And, in the case of ourselves, even venturing into orbit.
So, could life entering the cosmos be the beginning of a similar evolutionary leap?
Caleb Sharf, Astrobiologist with NASA and author of ‘The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life’, joins Seán to discuss.
By Newstalk4.6
2121 ratings
Around 500 million years ago, animals first ventured out of the oceans and onto land…
Since then, life has evolved in wondrous and unforeseeable ways to this new environment, with everything from dinosaurs to bats roaming around above the waves. And, in the case of ourselves, even venturing into orbit.
So, could life entering the cosmos be the beginning of a similar evolutionary leap?
Caleb Sharf, Astrobiologist with NASA and author of ‘The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life’, joins Seán to discuss.

72 Listeners

6 Listeners

1 Listeners

53 Listeners

63 Listeners

14 Listeners

150 Listeners

52 Listeners

23 Listeners

17 Listeners

2 Listeners

4 Listeners

15 Listeners

80 Listeners

45 Listeners

9 Listeners

27 Listeners

50 Listeners

121 Listeners

7 Listeners

36 Listeners

9 Listeners