Perhaps you've wished, while paging through a heavy textbook on evolutionary biology, that learning the subject could be a little more like an Eminem concert? If so, rush over to a New York theater where the rapper Baba Brinkman is ready to fill your brain with his one-man show, "The Rap Guide to Evolution."
The project began when Brinkman got a call from evolutionary biologist Mark Pallen, who asked him to compose a rap in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. Says Brinkman: "All winter I sent him copies of my rap lyrics, and he came back with corrections, which means my hip-hop show is peer reviewed."
Here's a segment of his show:
Olivia Judson, who praised the show in The New York Times, says she suspects this is "the only hip-hop show to talk of mitochondria, genetic drift, sexual selection or memes." She continues:
[Brinkman] is a man on ...
