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Ep 109: Nothing in biology makes sense except through time (with Kevin Mitchell)

Big BiologyNovember 2, 2023organism, system, agency, sense, freewill, cells, behavior, control, brain, idea, animals, determinism

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 94: Synthesizing life on the planet (with John Glass)

Big BiologyDecember 15, 2022genes, cell, organism, mycoplasma, genome, protein, life, synthetic, called, bacteria, minimal, whittle, divides, coli, lab, build, function, biology, put, synthesize

Ep 91: How stealth organs make super soldier ants (with Rajee Rajakumar)

Big BiologyNovember 3, 2022ants, phenotypes, soldiers, development, tissue, colony, species, plasticity, workers, morphology, cast, super soldier, developmental, army ants, cells, wing, called, head, organism, rudimentary