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Darwin's Grandpa and the Art of Sex Appeal

11/8/2024 • 40 min

Take the Cautionary Tales listener survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HCHGGZ3 Charles Darwin was stumped by peacocks. According to his theory of evolution, some creatures were better equipped to survive in their particular environment than others. It explained a lot - but it didn't explain the peacock's brightly coloured tail feathers, which were extra… Play episode

The Edinburgh Body Snatchers: Murder at Halloween
Cautionary Tales Presents: Death Fraud and Other Risky Business
The Poet Who Toppled The British Empire
Reason, Wrath and Rebellion on the High Seas
Steel and Kindness: Clash of the Skyscrapers
The Nice Guy, the Bully and the Kiss
Tim's Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power
The Human Guinea Pigs of Camp Lazear
Embracing the Escape Fire (with Adam Grant)
Cautionary Tales Presents Vultures from Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447
Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo
Adidas v Puma: A Battle of Boots and Brothers
The Revenge of the Whales
When the Robots Take Over... - Cautionary Questions
WW2: How Britain Ignored the Mother of All Secrets
The Fraudster's Guide to Magic Money
Blood and Gold (with Dan Snow)
The Rise and Fall of a Megalomaniac
Inside the Bizarre World of Dictators
Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day
Do Nothing, Then Do Less
Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)
Into the Black Lair: V2 Rocket (Part 2)
Supersonic Nazi Vengeance: V2 Rocket (Part 1)
Tenerife: The Most Deadly Air Disaster
Martin Luther King, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking (Cl…
DANGER: Rocks Ahead! (Classic)
When Stalin Killed the Weekend (with The Happiness Lab)
How the Radium Girls Fought Back
Glowing Peril: The Magical Glitter That Poisoned a City
George Washington's Beard of Beetles (with The Dollop)
Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc
Cautionary Tales Presents The Dream
Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Chief Jim Gray In Conversation
Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders
DOUBLE BILL: A Monkey For Mayor / A Screw Loose At 17,000 Feet
"7000 horses are being flown across space..." - Cautionary Questions #2
Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street
General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines
Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth
Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City
The Father of Space Travel
A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
When Parakeets Plundered New York
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
The Man Who Played With Hurricanes

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