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Ep 73: A gene’s-eye view: Useful tool or narrow lens? (with Arvid Ågren)
Ep 72: Stability and change: Lessons from the Serengeti (with Tony Sinclair)
Big Biology November 11, 2021 serengeti , predators , wildebeest , populations , species , animals , talk , point , regulation , disease , ecosystem , years , elephants , large mammals , baseline , lake victoria , cattle , tony , wildlife , trees
Ep 71: A tattoo on the brain: The neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease (with Daniel Gibbs)
Ep 70: The virus and the vegan: How the brain gains inference (with Karl Friston)
Ep 69: Butterfl-eyes: The evolution and function of insect vision (with Adriana Briscoe)
Ep 68: Performance anxiety: How coastal invertebrates cope with changing climate extremes (with Mark Denny)
Ep 67: Foiling the flashy: How artificial light dims insect behavior (with Avalon Owens)
Ep 66: Old vaccines for new pandemics (with Konstantin Chumakov and Robert Gallo)
Ep 65: Mouse on a hill: The structure and function of agency (with Michael Levin)
Ep 64: The stall protocol: Diapause in the annual killifish (with Jason Podrabsky)
Ep 63: Survival of the systems: The power of persistence (with Tim Lenton)
Ep 62: Situated Darwinism: Organism-centered evolution (with Denis Walsh)
Ep 61: Decoding CRISPR: Jennifer Doudna and the future of gene editing (with Walter Isaacson)
Ep 60: Human-assisted evolution: Conserving coral diversity (with Hollie Putnam)
Ep 59: Feel the burn: The limits of human energy expenditure and endurance (with Herman Pontzer)
Ep 58: Finding our voice: The neurobiology of vocal learning (with Erich Jarvis)
Ep 57: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Red Queen: Ecosystem services via coevolution (with Rob Raguso)
Ep 56: Bee kind: The buzz on global insect declines (with Dave Goulson)
Big Biology January 28, 2021 insects , bumblebees , bees , honeybees , species , declines , pollinators , people , monitoring , world , flowers , trapping , big , neonicotinoids , crops , farmers , diseases , pollinating , gardens , years
Ep 55: Hot wings: How birds stay cool under the Australian sun (with Christine Cooper)
Ep 54: And the Oskar goes to: Germ-soma differentiation in insects (with Cassandra Extavour)
