Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable that even our most sacred natural landscapes will eventually get swallowed up by humans? And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening?
We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth.
For transcripts, see individual segment pages.
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1h 5m
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17 Jul 2014
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Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable that even our most sacred natural landscapes will eventually get swallowed up by humans? And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening?
We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth.
For transcripts, see individual segment pages.
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- Hey, I'm Chad Ippenrod. - I am Robert Krillwich. - This is RadioLab, and today, we begin on a plane. - Thank you, Brooke. - Which carried our newly married producer, Tim Howard, to the Galapagos. So I took the plane from Keto. We had just finished the honeymoon that morning, me and Brooke. (speaking in foreign language) They make announcements and at a certain point, the flight attendants, they open up all of the overhead bins and they walk up and down, spraying some sort of insecticide. - For what? - For like an invasive species, I think. - Yeah, like whatever bugs might've snuck on the plane. By this point, I'm getting super excited
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Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable that even our most sacred natural landscapes will eventually get swallowed up by humans? And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening?
We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth.
For transcripts, see individual segment pages.
