BBC In Our Time – The Evolution of Lungs

[A classic episode, with real interest in terms of thinking about evolution per se, multiple solutions to existential problems, and the evolution of complexity. Stuart Brand would probably love it! Currently listening to Ben Sweeting giving the Ranulph Glanville Lecture at the ISSS conference, to which this is tangentially relevant – how can an organisation grow ‘along Galilean lines’… we don’t know exactly what that means.

Ben’s relevant slide

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In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the diverse ways animals extract oxygen from air, from the highly tuned lungs that enabled dinosaurs to grow tall and birds to fly high, to buccal pumping.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d8t2