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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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A Whistle-stop Tour Through The History of Life on Earth

We think of the history of life on this planet as basically being, microbes, fish, dinosaurs and then us. But this does a huge disservice to the extraordinary diversity of life that has called the Earth home and indeed to the work of those who study it. So we’re going to take a bit of a guided tour through life, minus the dinosaurs because they always hog the limelight anyway. Lauren Sallan is a Paleobiologist and Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She will be our guide