Norman Johnson was on the "Safeguarding Sound Science" podcast, run by the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), discussing his book, Darwin's Reach : 21st Century Applications of Evolutionary Biology (CRC Press, 2022). The main message of the book is that ideas and information from evolutionary biology have manifold applications to real-world pressing problems in realms of health, food, the environmental crises, and broader society.
Among the topics discussed on the podcast are:
why elephants and other large mammals do not get more cancer than humans,
the antibiotic resistance crisis (and possible solutions that evolutionary principles can guide us towards),
the parallels between arms races between different species of animals and the arms races nations engage in,
the longstanding connections between evolutionary biology and breeding in agriculture (and how these are being used in new settings now, such as breeding to improve characteristics of insects used to feed fish in aquaculture)