How Did Evolution Evolve? | The Evolution of Evolution

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-18

How did a word for unrolling a book come to describe a future nobody could read in advance? Settle into The Evolution of Evolution, a thoughtful sleep story about how an idea of life changed, branched and grew. We begin with a roll of papyrus in ancient Rome. Charles Bonnet watches a solitary aphid, Darwin sketches a branching tree, and a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace crosses the world with an idea Darwin has spent years considering. Tonight we follow the words that carried evolution, the arguments they caused, and the people who helped...