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Ep 104: Sleeping Beauties: The mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (with Andreas Wagner)

Big BiologyJune 15, 2023metabolism, metaphors, genes, talk, enzymes, organism, grasses, latent potential, lineages, evolve, promiscuity, latent, produce, genomes, ability, idea, traits, evolution, book, studied

Ep 47: The Origin of Us: Human Evolution (with Kate Wong)

Big BiologySeptember 10, 2020homo, sapiens, humans, africa, people, fossils, evolution, brain, species, talking, traits, tools, neanderthals, language, evidence, evolved, early, thought, modern, biological anthropology

Ep 43: Project ICARUS (with Martin Wikelski)

Big BiologyMay 28, 2020homo, sapiens, humans, africa, people, fossils, evolution, brain, species, talking, traits, tools, neanderthals, language, evidence, evolved, early, thought, modern, biological anthropology

Ep 42: Fatal Fungus (with Craig Franklin)

Big BiologyMay 15, 2020homo, sapiens, humans, africa, people, fossils, evolution, brain, species, talking, traits, tools, neanderthals, language, evidence, evolved, early, thought, modern, biological anthropology

Ep 41: Coronavirus II (with Andy Dobson)

Big BiologyApril 30, 2020homo, sapiens, humans, africa, people, fossils, evolution, brain, species, talking, traits, tools, neanderthals, language, evidence, evolved, early, thought, modern, biological anthropology

Ep 38: Coronavirus (with John Drake)

Big BiologyMarch 16, 2020homo, sapiens, humans, africa, people, fossils, evolution, brain, species, talking, traits, tools, neanderthals, language, evidence, evolved, early, thought, modern, biological anthropology

Ep 24: Mental Smoke Detectors (Randy Nesse)

Big BiologySeptember 12, 2019people, evolutionary, emotions, anxiety, genes, depression, psychiatry, person, disorders, find, evolution, called, thinking, question, problem, life, evolutionary biology, medicine, kinds, natural selection