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Slide from Politics & Prose event w/Rob Dunn & Kim Wejendorp To hear this Forthright Radio interview with Rob Dunn about his latest book, DELICIOUS: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human, click on this link: https://forthright.media/2021/04/07/rob-dunn-delicious-the-evolution-of-flavor-and-how-it-made-us-human/ Rob Dunn is a biology Professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. He conducts a Public Science Lab, which engages citizen scientists around the world via the website, robdunnlab.com. Tags: 

-Submitted photo West Minist’r band in 1970: kneeling, Chuck Henderson; back row, from left: Kirk Kaufman, Dean Davis, Rusty Bell and Frank Wiewel. -Submitted photo The Rogues in basement of Dean Davis’ home in 1965: from left, Brian Nelson, Robbi Dunn, Dean Davis and Doug (Luther) Thompson. -Submitted photo West Minist’r band in 1970: kneeling, Chuck Henderson; back row, from left: Kirk Kaufman, Dean Davis, Rusty Bell and Frank Wiewel. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles!” With those five words of introduction from Ed Sullivan, the Beatles – John, Paul, George and Ri...

Wednesday April 7  Forthright Radio with Joy LaClaire 9am On the next Forthright Radio, host Joy LaClaire will speak with scientist Rob Dunn, who returns to discuss his latest book DELICIOUS: THE EVOLUTION OF FLAVOR AND HOW IT MADE US HUMAN. That’s Forthright Radio, Wednesday at 9am here on KZYX and Z.      

Advertisement Princeton University Press HOW do we know what to eat? Dolphins need only hunger and a mental image of what food looks like. Their taste receptors broke long ago and they no longer detect anything but salty flavours, thriving on hunger and satisfaction alone. Omnivores and herbivores, on the other hand, have a more varied diet – and more chance of getting things badly wrong. They are therefore guided by much more highly developed senses of flavour and aroma. In Delicious, evolutionary biologist Rob Dunn and anthropologist Monica Sanchez weave together what chefs know about th...

The below is an interview with Rob Dunn (RRD), Lucie Ciccone graciously lent their insights and served as additional sets of eyes. One of the most indefatigable laws of nature is the law of natural selection. Natural selection is, at once, a simple and yet surprising law. Through a simple mechanism, it generates surprising forms. That simple mechanism is this… In any population of organisms, genetic variation exists. That variation encodes differences in the physical traits of organisms which affect their ability to survive and reproduce. Individuals with genes that lead them to have physi...