Skeptically Speaking » #146 Spider Silk

#146 Spider Silk

January 8, 2012 · 3 Comments

This week, we’re looking at some of nature’s most accomplished materials scientists, and the amazing substance they produce. We’re joined by Leslie Brunetta, co-author of Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating. We’ll discuss the form, function and uses of the sticky wonder material, and the ways that its study can help us understand evolution. And science writer Ed Yong tells us about silkworms with spider genes and the hybrid silk they spin.

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by Spider Silk · on January 7, 2012 at 4:05 pm
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by Spider Silk · on January 12, 2012 at 8:21 am
[...] First and foremost, Spider Silk may contain the best and most complete explanation of natural selection I have seen written for a general audience. It is clear. It is concise. It describes how directional action emerges from random events. You can hear Leslie Brunetta give this explanation in her own voice during her Skeptically Speaking interview. [...]

by Spider Silk | The Finch and Pea · on February 12, 2012 at 8:44 am