2025-10-10
43 分钟On this week's show we hear how Jane Goodall changed the world.
We've lost this connection to our heart to love, compassion, to nature.
And we speak with a primatologist who studies tool use in chimps in Gombe and worked with Jane Goodall.
She starts to realise that they have personalities and she's able to actually bring humanity closer to the natural world.
We're also welcoming physicist Katie Mack to the pod and we're going to be discussing the small matter of the end of the universe.
Spoiler, it's not happening tomorrow.
We also hear about a new theory as to why older men are more likely to pass on disease-causing mutations to their children.
What does it mean for older men who might be considering starting...
Well, I'm...
I'm just excluding myself from this.
Asking for a friend.
This episode is sponsored by Yakult, the gut experts for over 90 years.
I'm Dr Penny Sarge and I'm Dr Roan Hooper.
Welcome to the world, the universe and us.
We're going to start with Jane Goodall.
When she died last week, aged 91, there was a huge response from around the world.
And that's a sign not just of how much she was respected and admired, but also what she achieved.
She changed the world, didn't she?
Firstly, with her discovery of tool use in chimps, amazing discovery.
And then again, with her conservation advocacy around the world.