Episode 119: The Rap Guide to Evolution (2009)
To kick off the New Year, we’re reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, a music album by Baba Brinkman which is... pretty self-explanatory, really. So here’s an hour and 15 minutes of us explaining it! We get into evolutionary psychology, 2000s-era edgelor
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To kick off the New Year, we’re reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, a music album by Baba Brinkman which is... pretty self-explanatory, really. So here’s an hour and 15 minutes of us explaining it! We get into evolutionary psychology, 2000s-era edgelord atheism, postmodernism, genital evolution, and much more!
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In this Episode:
Watch The Rap Guide to Evolution on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROgR3nK6ayk&list=PLuHbMGCLLUYZ0pq_mN093hqzn_28SvpVS
Ambulocetus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus
Gol’din and Radović (2018) A Middle Miocene baleen whale from Bele Vode in Belgrade, Serbia: https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/9751
Marković et al. (2025) First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106177
Recapitulation theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory
Out of Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa
Jebel Irhoud: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22335
Apidima: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z
Social constructivism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructivism
Tim Minchin - Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
Science communication and science denial: https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/busting-myths-a-practical-guide-to-countering-science-denial/
Grizzly bear attacks school children in Canada: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz68x1n5qd6o
Evolutionary Psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
Pig domestication: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-domestication-of-pigs-170665
Ape testicle size: https://theconversation.com/why-did-humans-evolve-big-penises-but-small-testicles-71652
James Watson dead at 97: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/watson-james-obituary-9.6971457