Natural selection
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Oct 1, 2026
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What do worker ants teach us about natural selection? Find out next on today's Creation Moments.
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And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.
Ian TaylorHOST
Charles Darwin recognised that ants challenged his theory of natural selection.
Ian TaylorHOST
He even mentioned it in his book, The Origin of Species.
Ian TaylorHOST
He even asked how the situation with the lowly ant can ever be reconciled with his theory.
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What do worker ants teach us about natural selection? Find out next on today's Creation Moments.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.
Ian TaylorHOST
Charles Darwin recognized that ants challenged his theory of natural selection.
Ian TaylorHOST
He even mentioned it in his book, The Origin of Species.
Ian TaylorHOST
He even asked how the situation with the lowly ant can ever be reconciled with his theory.
LonoHOST
Unless it's Gollum.
LonoHOST
You know, I think wanting natural selection to take place in the market is fine.
LonoHOST
That's not wishing ill on others.
LonoHOST
Right.
LonoHOST
If you want natural selection to take place, the survival of the fittest.
LonoHOST
So like what happens to the day before.
LonoHOST
As an example, that's natural selection, baby.
LonoHOST
Welcome to the jungle, mother...
Amanda BowerHOST
Nowadays, we think that's probably a South American grass quit.
Amanda BowerHOST
But a process called natural selection had led to them evolving as different species.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Natural selection is now accepted science, but at the time it was a new notion.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Give us the basic gist of how it works, Amanda.
Amanda BowerHOST
OK, so every now and then some animals are randomly born or there are plants that randomly grow with a genetic difference.
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Bryce CorbettHOST
This is the part of the podcast where you get to test how well you've been listening.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Question number one, which ocean are the Galapagos Islands in? Yeah, that's right, it's the Pacific Ocean.
Amanda BowerHOST
Question number two, which type of animal helped Charles Darwin arrive at his theory of natural selection? That's right, it was the humble finch.
Richard WatsonGUEST
I think all of life is cognitive.
Richard WatsonGUEST
You don't need natural selection.
Richard WatsonGUEST
You don't need neural networks.
Richard WatsonGUEST
You don't need design.
EvanHOST
His work might just change where you think intelligence begins because natural induction, the mechanism he spent twenty years building and then published with Michael Levin, argues that a mind needs no brain, no gene, and no designer to get itself started.
EvanHOST
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EvanHOST
How can natural cognition precede natural selection?
Richard WatsonGUEST
Many of the characteristics, morphology, behavior, phenotypes of organisms are not determined by their genes.
SammyHOST
You'll see them in the feathers of a bird's wing, the spiky thorns of a flower stem, and even in your own ability to digest the lactose sugar that's found in milk, assuming that you're not lactose intolerant.
SammyHOST
All of these adaptations are responses to that same question: how do we keep ourselves alive long enough to reproduce? Enter natural selection, the process by which populations adapt and change based on inherited traits.
SammyHOST
It is one of the forces behind evolution's ongoing four-billion-year-long craft project.
SammyHOST
It has no goal, no final conclusion.
SammyHOST
A genotype is genetic information that helps determine phenotype, which is the actual expression of an organism's anatomy, internal functions, and behavior in the real world.
SammyHOST
Phenotype includes not just the outside stuff, but also the inside stuff, like the structure of cells.
SammyHOST
Natural selection acts on traits in an organism's phenotype.
SammyHOST
But the connection here isn't as simple as inherit this gene, get this quality.
C.S. JosephHOST
And I'm so sorry, folks, but that is like the UDSS name.
C.S. JosephHOST
Isn't that natural selection, too? It is natural selection.
C.S. JosephHOST
But no,
Yuri SkarzynskiHOST
let's flip natural selection upside down, because having a state-issued wife is so much more important.
C.S. JosephHOST
Well, doing that, that's actually the core philosophy of what a subconsciously developed male is, is flipping natural selection upside down.
C.S. JosephHOST
Because if you think about it, you have society, right? Society is just a wall between a man and natural selection.
C.S. JosephHOST
That's all it is, okay? A man and natural selection.
C.S. JosephHOST
And if the man is dependent on this wall to prevent him the horrors and the terrors of natural selection, which is death.
Claudia HirtenfelderHOST
Yeah, the way they live their lives, the way their bodies are physically constituted is very different.
Harriet RitvoGUEST
And what traits get selected for, either by natural selection or by artificial selection?
Claudia HirtenfelderHOST
Forgive me for my ignorance, but I'm hoping you might know.
Claudia HirtenfelderHOST
People often seem to have the idea that humans are now outside of natural selection, that we no longer function with natural selection.
Claudia HirtenfelderHOST
What's your view on
Harriet RitvoGUEST
that? We're not absolutely outside of it, but we've managed to compensate.
Harriet RitvoGUEST
And presumably, there are some conditions that make people less likely to leave children.
Harriet RitvoGUEST
And that's, I mean, that's, you know, Darwin did not make up evolution as people often say, but what he did do was explain how it worked, that is by selection.
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