#TPLOD (The Plunge Lines Of Diversity) --- SynTalk

Has it always been the Anthropocene? Do you care about the ‘powerless’ Nicobar? How old is biodiversity? Why does anyone want to be a conservationist? What is the kind of variety that we wish to preserve? What is a unit of diversity? Do different parts of the world think differently today about the ‘species vs habitat’ question? Is agency distributed throughout nature? What did Tibbles do? Are there variations even within individuals (of a taxonomic group) in an environment? What purpose do sacred groves serve? Is conservation always great for local communities? Must conservation efforts also be calibrated? Can diversity be ‘understood’ via experience? How do diversification, adaptation and extinction contribute to evolution? Do the (internal) processes of organic life themselves lead to diversity? What is it like to lose things without knowing about them? How do differing aesthetic and moral impulses influence us? Are you afraid of change? Do you like manicured lawns? What does natural selection act on? How do we classify the world? What choices do we have? What is diversity for? &, could one even think a 1000 years into the future? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using ideas from evolutionary biology (Dr. Anand Krishnan, JNCASR, Bangalore), philosophy & biology (Prof. Sahotra Sarkar, UT Austin, Austin) & conservation studies (Dr. Pankaj Sekhsaria, IIT Bombay, Mumbai). Listen in...

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This episode was published on Dec 20, 2025.

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