Science
24 min
Evolution Is Not Going Anywhere
The famous ape-to-man picture is pointing the wrong way.
We picture evolution as a climb, with humans waiting at the top. This episode argues that picture is exactly upside down. The absence of any goal is what makes the mechanism powerful enough to have made everything alive.
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About Mythio
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.