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A Grown-Up Guide to Oceans

By: Professor Ben Garrod, Ellie Sans
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  • Summary

  • Kids love the ocean - it‚Äôs mysterious and unknown, home to monsters of the imagination and some of the most fascinating life forms on the planet.

    But while many grown-ups might love being by or on the sea, how much do we actually know about the world beneath the waves?

    In this follow-up to A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, evolutionary biologist, Professor Ben Garrod, takes the listener on an oceanic journey from the beginning of life on Earth to the present day, discovering what the ocean actually is and why it’s so important in the evolutionary history of life.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: What Is the Ocean?

    Ep. 1: What Is the Ocean?
    Aug 10 2020

    A deceptively simple question....

    The series starts by answering a question: ‘What is the ocean?’

    We know it’s big, salty and wet but how did it get so big, why is it salty and why is it so important to life on earth? And what do we know about how these three things made the ocean the perfect place for the beginning of life itself? We meet the scientists studying the conditions in deep sea hydrothermal vents to find out where and how it all began.
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    33 mins
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  • Ep. 2: Evolutionary Explosions

    Ep. 2: Evolutionary Explosions
    Aug 10 2020

    How did we get from single celled organisms to the incredibly diverse ocean ecosystem we have today?

    After two billion years of painfully slow evolutionary change what happened to scramble the system and allow the earth to get messy with life? The answer again lies in the ocean. Ben finds out how changing conditions in the ocean allowed animals to evolve from their single celled origins to the huge diversity we see today, and meets some of the first weird and wonderful animals to roam the ocean bottom in Evolutionary Explosions.
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    31 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Rise of the Fishes

    Ep. 3: Rise of the Fishes
    Aug 10 2020

    During the Cambrian Explosion we find the first examples of every major animal group, including the line to which we belong - the vertebrates. In Rise of the Fishes Ben finds out more about our distant ancestors - the fish. Making up half of all living vertebrates, fish are the most successful backboned animals on the planet. And they are the group to which we owe the evolution of teeth, jaws, and even our limbs.
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    26 mins
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Not what I was expecting but informative

More about origins of life from the oceans before getting into the question of intelligent life.

I think maybe I had not read the description correctly as I was expecting an over view of the different species and environment rather than climate change effects.

Still, well presented and informative and a good companion to his earlier podcast.

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more like this please

great podcast,Ben Garrod is great at this type of program.A natural teacher.He also comes across well on the tv and also in his writing,I've not long read his book The Chimpanzee And Me which is great.

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good but...

Really enjoyed most of the material but it's called 'a GROWN-UP guide to oceans' so why does the presenter dumb down the interesting parts and talk like he's talking to a child?

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engaging

Excellent podcast.very informative but not too technical and despite the tone at times it is uplifting.

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Not quite what I expected

'Sequel' to the Dinosaur version but unlike that one, that talks about different species of Dinosaur.
You'd expect the same here talking about animals in the sea but no, it does touch on a few species but instead talks abit about everything to do with the ocean, including global warming.
That being said, it's still an interesting listen.

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Good series

I really enjoyed this and it explained things in a thought provoking, energetic and non preachy way

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Very Informative & Well Presented

Excellent analysis - worth listening to more than once. Very clearly presented with both sides of various arguments discussed.

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Funny, interesting and easy to listen to

Brilliant series, really interesting and funny. The narration is great. I hope more are brought out.

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As a fanatical diver this was a must.

I've had the privilege of interaction with squid, octopi and once a group of three very large cuttlefish performing nature's oldest dance, so this series was a must, and it didn't disappoint for a moment, Excellent!

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Loved it

Very educational but fun and entertaining. I binged listened. Can't wait for the next series!

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