CYKIAE Season 004 Part 03. Evolution at a Stretch. Dolphins - Echolocation Way Better than Anything We've Tried. Final Part.

On 10 April 1912 the magnificent, largest luxury liner in the world, the White Star Line’s unsinkable Titanic, left Southampton harbour to begin its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean – and to fulfil its tragic destiny. The inability of any of the latest technologies carried on board this state of the art ship, to give warning to the danger that lurked out of sight, under the water, was one of the things that led to the development of the new technology. The new technology would use sound under the water to let the command on a ship to know what dangers lurked there. As we always seem to find out, nature already had this covered – and far better than we’ve been able to do so far. For the whole of their existence, the dolphin had been using the technique that the scientists were to discover and copy – or had they. Perhaps Charles Darwin had light to shed on how this adaption had happened. Tag words: White Star Line; Titanic; Atlantic Ocean; echolocation; Dennis Venema; American Scientific Affiliation; Fellow of Biology for the BioLogos Foundation; Scot McKnight; Adam and the Genome; Charles Darwin; Theory of Evolution; prestin; Amino acids; DNA; Bats; whales; dolphins; sonar; Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee; ASDIC; F.V. Ted Hunt; Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory; Sounding Navigation and Ranging; Sonar; Stephen Hawkings; melon; Tim Leighton; Professor of Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics at Southampton University; David Attenborough; Blue Planet; Thermals; Mulloka Project; Royal Australian Navy; HMAS Yarra; On the Origin of Species; On the Origin of Species; Chapter IV Character of Natural Selection; Divergence of Character; ASA Acoustical Society of America; Peter Teglberg Madsen; Aarhus University; Denmark; Science Daily; Dr Joe Parker; Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences;