March 14, 2022

Ep. 138 Slijper's Two-Legged Goat

41 minutes

This week we have an episode on a topic recommended by a friend of the show! We begin with a story about a cute little goat born in the late 1930s in the Netherlands, and spiral into a wide ranging discussion about evolution, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, and nature vs nurture! Tune in!

References:

https://medium.com/philosophy-of-science-communication/i-was-slijpers-goat-d79e59d32ac6

https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/50/2/386/901720

http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/EvSy/PDF/Rachootin-Thomson_Epigenetics_1981.pdf

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0501844102

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)00651-8

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00720/full

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