Darwinian Beauty

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02/08/22 • 136 min

This week The Sexually Selected Boys of ComedyTM get into some of the basics of the evolution of mating.

Charles Darwin’s birthday is just before Valentine’s Day on Feb 12. We thought it would be fitting to spend the next two weeks talking about how change over time has shaped the tantalizing act of spreading genes.

'On The Origin of Species' put Darwin on the map and introduced the world to evolution. But when it came to mating, things like the peacock just weren’t making sense. This spawned his controversial book ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’

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This week The Sexually Selected Boys of ComedyTM get into some of the basics of the evolution of mating.

The SSBCTM want to you to be our Valentine on YouTube or your favorite app.

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Press Conference

The Amenable Boys of ComedyTM take questions from the listeners and wow did the MUMies come through with some good ones!

How many hot dogs have you eaten in your life? Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? Do you believe in ghosts? How would you use a time machine? Who would you like to talk to from History?

This was the first Q&A episode that we tried and ended up with so many fantastic questions from both Instagram and Patrons that we decided to do two episodes!

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Erupting with Life

The Sexually Selected Valentines of ComedyTM release their second episode on mating behavior.

Last week we went through a bit of the early history of the scientific debates over the evolution of utility versus beauty. This week we will go through some of the more recent theories about mating behavior to better understand the eruption of various behaviors that have both created and destroyed an uncountable number of species on earth.

We start with a dive underwater to see what odd strategies might arise when there AREN’T plenty of fish in the sea. Things only get more beautifully bizarre from there. Nature has a seemingly endless diversity of mating behaviors but are there some underlying patterns?

For example, giving gifts to mates has evolved over and over in multiple species, but you’d probably find some of those gifts to be very different than what you might imagine.

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