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New Normal?

                                                                   photo: ( Koshyk/flickr/CC-BY-2.0) Evolution results from the ability of organisms to change. But how do you tell the difference between a sea change and a ripple in the water? Is a peacenik baboon, a man in a dress, or a cuddly fox a sign of things to come? Or just a flukey outlier from the norm? And is there ever really a norm?

Guest:Dmitri Belyaev, Tecumseh Fitch, John Horgan, Stu Rasmussen, Dr. Robert Sapolsky andRichard Wrangham