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AI Reads Darwin

An AI-narrated reading of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).
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2026-04-12T19:48:31.977293 • 12:59

DOWNLOADED EEB187 Lecture 5 Teaching Prep — Part 1: The Molecule & The Cascade

Teaching coaching podcast for Lecture 5 (Photoreceptors & Opsins). Part 1 covers opsin-retinal structure, retinal isomerization, phototransduction cascade, amplification, and single-photon detection.
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2026-04-12T19:48:31.977293 • 17:41

DOWNLOADED EEB187 Lecture 5 Teaching Prep — Part 2: Ancestry, Opsins & Univariance

Teaching coaching podcast for Lecture 5 (Photoreceptors & Opsins). Part 2 covers deep ancestry, opsin families, nocturnal bottleneck, primate trichromacy, and the principle of univariance.
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2026-03-10 07:51:02 • 1:00:10

Marshall - Big Five Mass Extinctions (v3 final)

Marshall (2023) - full cleanup: abstract, correct ordering, no refs/DOIs/citations.
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2026-03-10 07:31:38 • 53:44

Marshall - Big Five Mass Extinctions (cleaned)

Marshall (2023) - cleaned: no refs, no citations, no boilerplate.
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2026-03-09 23:48:54 • 59:23

Darwin Ch10 - On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings (cleaned)

Chapter 10, cleaned text with fixed hyphenation and running headers removed.
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2026-03-09 22:28:46 • 1:55:41

Forty Years Later: The Status of the Big Five Mass Extinctions

Marshall (2023) - A review of the Big Five mass extinctions forty years after the concept was established. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction.
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2026-03-09 22:26:38 • 53:53

Darwin - On the Origin of Species, Chapter 10: On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings

Chapter 10 of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1st edition facsimile), covering the geological succession of organic beings.
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2026-03-03 06:19:51 • 25:06

Apparent timescaling of fossil diversification rates is caused by sampling bias

Apparent timescaling of fossil diversification rates is caused by sampling bias
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2026-03-02 21:22:33 • 57:40

chapter ix improved

trying to fix the problem with line breaks
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2026-03-02 21:02:52 • 1:09:08

Chapter IX: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Chapter IX — On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. Covering the absence of intermediate varieties, the vast lapse of time, the poorness of palaeontological collections, and the sudden appearance of groups of species.
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2026-02-24 15:14:17 • 1:19:58

DOWNLOADED Chapter VIII: Instinct 16 plays

AI Insights GEMINI

This episode includes a detailed examination of how various animal instincts, such as the cuckoo's parasitic egg-laying, the slave-making behavior of certain ants, and the hive bee's geometrically perfect cell construction, can be explained through gradual modification and natural selection. It also addresses the significant challenge posed by sterile worker insects, arguing that selection operates on the family unit, enabling the evolution of specialized castes.

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Chapter 8 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, read by AI. Darwin explores animal instincts -- from the cuckoo's parasitic egg-laying to the architectural genius of hive bees -- arguing that natural selection can account for even the most remarkable behavioral adaptations.
2026-02-24 07:12:46 • 1:19:58

DELETED Chapter VIII: Instinct

AI Insights

This episode includes a detailed examination of instincts, arguing that they, like physical structures, are subject to natural selection and can evolve through gradual, inherited variations. Complex examples such as the cuckoo's parasitic egg-laying, the slave-making behavior of ants, and the hive bee's geometrically perfect cells are presented to illustrate this theory. It also addresses how natural selection can operate on the community to produce complex, sterile castes in social insects.

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Chapter 8 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, read by AI. Darwin explores animal instincts -- from the cuckoo's parasitic egg-laying to the architectural genius of hive bees -- arguing that natural selection can account for even the most remarkable behavioral adaptations.