Episode 9: Evolution and Genetics in the Star Trek Universe

In this episode, we take a look at the Star Trek Universe! We explore evolution, genetics, the search for intelligent alien life and interspecies boot-knocking. We chat with Dr. Mohamed Noor of Duke University, an evolutionary geneticist and author of Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek can teach us about Evolution, Genetics and Life on Other Worlds. Could alien nanobots actually evolve? Is it possible that Captain Kirk has illegitimate alien babies running around the galaxy? Take a listen a find out! Music By The Passion HiFi

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Episode 9: Evolution and Genetics in the Star Trek Universe is an episode from The Biology of Superheroes Podcast by Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton and Arien Darby.

This episode is 51:33 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2019.

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