Darwin was ultimately correct about sexual selection despite being ridiculed by his Victorian peers for suggesting females possess aesthetic discrimination and sexual agency.

“but I then I I'm very fond of a person who features in my book called Edmund Salo who was a um an amateur naturalist who watched the same species as me the black grous as well number of other species and and he he said you know Darwin was right the evidence speaks trumpet tonged in his favor”

The host states that Charles Darwin was the central figure responsible for the shift from a religious to a scientific worldview.

“Charles Darwin was the fulcrum by which or on which the entire sea change from a religious worldview to a scientific worldview took place. It was on this man's shoulders.”