Jon Evans is a musician, surfer, runner, intrepid traveller and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia. In this episode, we travel back in time to Jon's early high school days in England as a self-confessed unruly and disengaged student. We stop off at the Great Barrier Reef where Jon had his first real epiphany and swing past St Andrew's University where he completed his PhD. Finishing up the tour we arrive in Perth, where Jon shares his enduring passion for scientific inquiry and the projects he is currently involved with at UWA. We discuss a wide range of topics close to Jon's heart including marine and evolutionary biology, the power of experiential learning and what it's like to teach an undergraduate interdisciplinary course, Darwinian Revolution.