This week Xander talks about the real Iron Man (a guy who made armour for fighting bears, and can see through walls), Darren impresses everyone by describing all the evolution books he has read, and Adam tears down the pernicious myth that you cannot read in a dream.
Evolution Book Recommendations (red means 'must read') On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Brown Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory by Edward J. Larson Wonderful Life by Stephen J. Gould The Moral Animal by Robert Wright The Blank Slate: The modern denial of human nature by Steven Pinker The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Genome by Matt Ridley Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett A Darwinian Left by Peter Singer Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species by Sarah Hrdy Jon's bonus recommendation: Evolution: Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer