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Ep 111: Evolution of the Invaders (with Ruth Hufbauer)
Ep 110: Tempest in a barcode: how rapidly can we (and should we) identify new species? (with Michael Sharkey)
Ep 109: Nothing in biology makes sense except through time (with Kevin Mitchell)
Big Biology November 2, 2023 organism , system , agency , sense , freewill , cells , behavior , control , brain , idea , animals , determinism
Ep 108: The dialectical biologists: challenges of studying evolution in nature (with Erik Svensson)
Ep 107: Cooperation versus conflict and the path to multicellularity (with Joan Strassmann and David Queller)
Ep 106: Long-term experimental evolution in the wild (with Katie Peichel and Andrew Hendry)
Ep 105: Follow the data: the search for COVID’s origin (with Alina Chan)
Little Biology: Why can’t I regrow my arm?
Ep 104: Sleeping Beauties: The mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (with Andreas Wagner)
Big Biology June 15, 2023 metabolism , metaphors , genes , talk , enzymes , organism , grasses , latent potential , lineages , evolve , promiscuity , latent , produce , genomes , ability , idea , traits , evolution , book , studied
Ep 103: Pest-o, change-o: how culture shapes our view of animal commensals (with Bethany Brookshire)
Big Biology June 1, 2023 pests , rats , animals , elephants , mice , cats , pigeons , species , writing , kevin , new zealand , sparrows , book , bethany , birds , love , bees , maori , big , humans
Ep 102: Inherency in evolution (with Stuart Newman)
Ep 101: NEON: The promises and challenges of large-scale ecological research (with Scott Collins and Alan Knapp)
Ep 100: A retrospective on agency
Ep 99: Creativity and passion in science communication (with Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher)
Ep 98: There’s a thousand genes for that! (with Nick Barton)
Ep 97: Mutation bias in evolution: climbing Mount Probable (with Arlin Stoltzfus)
Ep 96: The network motifs that run the world (with Uri Alon)
Ep 95: Why are we like this? (with Tina Lasisi)
Big Biology January 12, 2023 hair , people , skin pigmentation , populations , humans , question , individuals , phenotype , traits , variation , sexual selection , differences , terms , talking , vitamin d , thinking , necessarily , race , solar radiation , patterns
Ep 94: Synthesizing life on the planet (with John Glass)
Big Biology December 15, 2022 genes , cell , organism , mycoplasma , genome , protein , life , synthetic , called , bacteria , minimal , whittle , divides , coli , lab , build , function , biology , put , synthesize
Ep 93: Assembling life in the universe (with Sara Walker)
