Boring History Podcast
Soup to Us
The story of life, from chemistry to us, told slowly. Every claim checked, every argument labeled, nothing exciting on purpose. From The Boring History Podcast.
Soup to Us tells the story of life from the chemistry before anything was alive, through the first cells, to us, over several long episodes. Each one goes through what the evidence shows, what is still argued, and who is arguing it, in plain words and at length. Testable science, philosophy, and speculation get labeled as what they are. Sources for every episode are at boringhistorypodcast.com.
It will be less exciting than you are hoping. That is sort of the premise of the show.
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Episodes
Episode 1
Soup to Us · Part 1
Before Anything Was Alive
Released
53 minutes
From chemistry to us: seven origin hypotheses, why primordial-soup branding hides the harder problems, and what can be said about LUCA, horizontal gene transfer, endosymbiosis, and multicellularity.
Episode 2
Soup to Us · Part 2
A Fairly Slow Explosion
Released
50 minutes
The Cambrian explosion, measured: the crowded Ediacaran sea, the fossils of Chengjiang and the Burgess Shale, how sudden twenty million years really is, and why oxygen, predators, eyes, and the gene networks that build bodies all get proposed as causes.