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A Grown-Up Guide to Oceans

Written by: Professor Ben Garrod, Ellie Sans
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  • Summary

  • Kids love the ocean - it‚Äôs mysterious and unknown, home to monsters of the imagination and some of the most fascinating life forms on the planet.

    But while many grown-ups might love being by or on the sea, how much do we actually know about the world beneath the waves?

    In this follow-up to A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, evolutionary biologist, Professor Ben Garrod, takes the listener on an oceanic journey from the beginning of life on Earth to the present day, discovering what the ocean actually is and why it’s so important in the evolutionary history of life.

    A Listen Entertainment production for Audible Originals.

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  • Ep. 1: What Is the Ocean?

    Ep. 1: What Is the Ocean?
    Aug 10 2020

    A deceptively simple question....

    The series starts by answering a question: ‘What is the ocean?’

    We know it’s big, salty and wet but how did it get so big, why is it salty and why is it so important to life on earth? And what do we know about how these three things made the ocean the perfect place for the beginning of life itself? We meet the scientists studying the conditions in deep sea hydrothermal vents to find out where and how it all began.
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  • Ep. 2: Evolutionary Explosions

    Ep. 2: Evolutionary Explosions
    Aug 10 2020

    How did we get from single celled organisms to the incredibly diverse ocean ecosystem we have today?

    After two billion years of painfully slow evolutionary change what happened to scramble the system and allow the earth to get messy with life? The answer again lies in the ocean. Ben finds out how changing conditions in the ocean allowed animals to evolve from their single celled origins to the huge diversity we see today, and meets some of the first weird and wonderful animals to roam the ocean bottom in Evolutionary Explosions.
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    31 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Rise of the Fishes

    Ep. 3: Rise of the Fishes
    Aug 10 2020

    During the Cambrian Explosion we find the first examples of every major animal group, including the line to which we belong - the vertebrates. In Rise of the Fishes Ben finds out more about our distant ancestors - the fish. Making up half of all living vertebrates, fish are the most successful backboned animals on the planet. And they are the group to which we owe the evolution of teeth, jaws, and even our limbs.
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    26 mins
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An educational listen

The first 2 episodes are a tad dry and could be difficult to follow if one is not up to date on chemistry lingo.
However the rest of the series is wonderful. I enjoyed the last episode as the narrator speaks of conservation and change for our oceans!

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everyone should listen to this. fun & important.

highly recommended. I felt like I took a class and loved it and now i want to be better at taking care of our world

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loved it

I loved every bit of this and learned so much I hope he does more

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I would love to know where the visuals are

I would also love to hear more about dolphin society, cuttlefish dreams, and anything to do with intelligence not our own.

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Such fun!

I’m big on fresh water and marine science, so this was a great listen. The narration is fun and engaging and the material was presented in an excellent manner. Have listened to each episode multiple times now and still loving it!

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Interesting and educational

The narration was good. Educational and informative. Learnt teeth, lungs then legs important to evolution. Last chapter of climate change, miro plastics and over fishing was a bit of a downer.

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fun to listen to

loved it, as we went through time
it was very educational and very informative and very enjoyable.

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Quite boring.

i'm a fan of animal and science documentaries, and this serie does not worth it at all.

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