Professor John Long Flinders University

94.1FM – Egypt Australia Radio Show [ EARS ] with Jerry Guirguis interviewing Professor John Long, Palaeontologist, Flinders University, South Australia, pre-recorded via zoom session on Saturday 20 November 2021, scheduled for broadcast 9pm Sunday 21 November 2021.

Human evolution story from apes to upstanding homo sapiens, is not the full story, South Australian Flinders University palaeontologist, John Long prefers to go back more than 400-million-years to the Devonian Period, when most of the world as we know it was underwater.

John and his colleagues discovered several fish from that age that tell us so much about how we became human.

ABC Radio National – Conversations podcast [ Host: Richard Fidler ]

How a fish with tiny fingers changed history - Conversations - ABC Radio

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/john-long-palaeontology-fish-fossils-devonian/13591848

Watch YouTube NOW.....[ https://youtu.be/-Rdf2U7XxwQ

Last week we played ABC’s podcast and then we interviewed George Theodoridis and asked him about Greek Mythology and what the Great Athenians said about evolution, Greek stories of Poseidon, how the most beautiful woman Aphrodite was born in the sea and recent sea exploration stories about Atlantis the sunken city.

I then invited Professor John Long to give us the opportunity to speak to us here on 94.1FM EARS, it was really the perfect opportunity to ask

[ One Question i would’ve asked in that interview ].

Hi and Welcome Professor John Long

Prof John Long......... might make comments about how he just recently finished reading a book about, Philosopher Thales of Miletus and his student Anaximander

[ Anaximander and Infinity - YouTube [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-HV5QJQfWw ]

Now going back to your ABC’s podcast, the percent of Oxygen is now at 21%, but in the past it fluctuated from 29% down to 13% and then up again to 30%.

Q1] How? and Why ?

You’re from the Sea and Ashes and to Sea You Shall Return.

Q2] When did mammals [ Whales ] go back to the sea ?

With Climate change, Earth's rising temperatures and the alarming rise in sea level.

Q3] Should we start thinking and investing in Cities above & below Sea level in Oceans ?.

Aussie STEM Stars is an inspiring children’s series that celebrates Australia’s experts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

The seventh book in the series is about John Long, fossil hunter.

Visit the dedicated website at www.aussiestemstars.com.au

Aussie STEM Stars: John Long | Wild Dingo Press

Thank You

Jerry Guirguis

Presenter