First of all, and maybe we can get into how you're doing it, but first of all, just how did you start? Why was that sort of the thing that you knew you wanted to do?

Yeah, I think it comes with a large dose of foolishness and a complete inability to see far in front of my face.

Yeah, look, I think the seeds were planted for this quite early in my life.

My father's an evolutionary biologist, but he works on what he would call evolutionary ecology.

So taking principles of natural selection and using the constraints of natural selection as an explanatory principle to explain why you see the kinds of variation that you do around you.

Why is it that this particular lizard has a very wide-shaped head versus this other group of lizards that has a very narrow-shaped head? What were the benefits of that in terms of its adaptation? But using the...

explanation of the environment around it, its predators, the kinds of prey that it was trying to eat, and the kinds of problems that it was trying to solve as your explanatory set.

It's brutal,

So I'm wondering how you came into wanting to do that and First of all, and maybe we can get into how you're doing it, but first of all, just how did you start? Why was that sort of the thing that you knew you wanted to do?

Yeah, I think it comes with a large dose of foolishness and a complete inability to see far in front of my face.

Yeah, look, I think the seeds were planted for this quite early in my life.

My father's an evolutionary biologist, but he works on what he would call evolutionary ecology.

So taking principles of natural selection and using the constraints of natural selection as an explanatory principle to explain why you see the kinds of variation that you do around you.

Why is it that this particular lizard has a very wide-shaped head versus this other group of lizards that has a very narrow-shaped head? What were the benefits of that in terms of its adaptation? But using the...

explanation of the environment around it, its predators, the kinds of prey that it was trying to eat, and the kinds of problems that it was trying to solve as your explanatory set.

But