Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Oct 18, 2026
Carl LehrburgerGUEST
And, uh, Dr.
Carl LehrburgerGUEST
Fell, who is, uh, was a, uh, uh, a professor at, uh, Harvard, uh, Museum of Comparative Zoology, uh, became, uh, an expert in, uh, the Old World peoples in America.
Carl LehrburgerGUEST
And, uh, by, by using, uh, a skill that he developed in, in reading ancient inscriptions called epigraphy, he, uh, uh, uh, generated a tremendous amount of interest of, um, among people like myself, where he, I thought, demonstrated that, uh, the Celts and many other Old World peoples had made it to the New World long before Columbus.
Carl LehrburgerGUEST
And after reading that book, uh, which was published in, uh, 1976, so I'm, uh, Johnny Come Lately, you could say-
Peter BishopSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Evolution is, it's messy.
Ann JonesHOST
And this is Dr Peter Bishop, by the way, from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard in the US, despite what his accent says.
Peter BishopSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Lizards are the only modern reptiles that engage in any bipedalism.
Peter BishopSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They can, if they're threatened or if they're evading a predator or something like that, they can rear up onto their hind legs and run away.
Tara SalazarHOST
You need to, quote, drive toward daunting goals with nerves steeled against failure and a readiness to accept pain, end quote.
Tara SalazarHOST
you need to be a scientist like Philip Jackson Darlington, former curator in entomology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and one of Wilson's early heroes.
Tara SalazarHOST
In the 1940s, Darlington was in pursuit of insects in the jungles of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific.
Tara SalazarHOST
A crocodile took him in its jaws and dragged him underwater.