When you really think about it, sex to make babies is WEIRD! You take an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that links into a production line of eggs to assemble a perfect tiny being. It’s so damn complicated!
So why does it work like that?
Join us at What the Duck for the first episode of a series where we figure out how living things went from splitting ourselves in half to double the population, to periodically feeling compelled to copulate in such a vigorous, sometimes highly embarrassing, manner.
Earth - this is your sexual history!
Please note that this program contains adult themes and explicit language. Parental guidance is recommended.
This is a summer repeat of Episode One - please find the rest of the "Sex is Weird" series here.
Featuring:
- Emeritus Professor David Siveter, University of Leicester, UK.
- Assistant Professor Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UK and curator of non-insect invertebrates, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK.
- Dr Marissa Betts, geologist and palaeontologist at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
- Dr Emily Willingham, biologist, journalist and author.
- Associate Professor Patty Brennan, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, US.
Production:
- Ann Jones, Presenter / Producer.
- Petria Ladgrove, Producer.
Additional mastering: Isabella Tropiano and Russell Stapleton.
Thanks also to Will Ockenden, Belinda Smith, Corey Hague and Joel Werner.
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This episode of What the Duck?! was first broadcast in September 2024 and is produced on the land of the Wadawarrung and Kaurna people.
