Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week’s episode, we talk to David George Haskell.
He’s a biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken (£20, Faber & Faber).
He explains how and why the animal kingdom evolved to communicate by sound.
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And if that’s not enough, you can hear even more from David on Instant Genius Extra.
On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered on Instant Genius. In this episode, David tells the story of humans’ relationship with sound.
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- The animal kingdom’s mathematicians, with Brian Butterworth
- The neuroscience of grief, with Mary-Frances O’Connor
- Hyenas, with Prof Adam Hart
- How biology got females wrong, with Lucy Cooke