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Ep 95: Why are we like this? (with Tina Lasisi)

Big BiologyJanuary 12, 2023hair, people, skin pigmentation, populations, humans, question, individuals, phenotype, traits, variation, sexual selection, differences, terms, talking, vitamin d, thinking, necessarily, race, solar radiation, patterns

Ep 92: A journey into the brilliant abyss (with Helen Scales)

Big BiologyNovember 17, 2022deep ocean, deep, people, ocean, species, deep sea, fish, happening, bit, ecosystems, seabed, hydrothermal vents, book, snail, metals, talking, yeti, carbon, crabs, depth

Ep 90: Fabricated images threaten the integrity of Alzheimer’s research (with Charles Piller)

Big BiologyOctober 20, 2022genes, alzheimer, cassava, images, papers, people, amyloid, scientists, called, protein, hypothesis, journals, science, problem, field, manipulations, drug, nih, studies, western blot, western blots

Ep 88: How I learned to stop worrying and follow the data (with Timothy Caulfield)

Big BiologySeptember 22, 2022misinformation, people, science, studies, coffee, topic, book, pandemic, scientific uncertainty, absolutely, microbiome, bad, big, impact, starting, masks, talk, question, happen, important

Ep 87: Life in the lab, are model organisms an asset or impediment to biology? (with Sabina Leonelli and Rachel Ankeny)

Big BiologySeptember 8, 2022model organisms, organisms, biology, people, model, sabina, species, question, study, genes, human genome project, lab, important, genetic, mouse, scope, research, projects, elegans, work

Ep 79: How the genetic lottery affects complex human traits (with Kathryn Paige Harden)

Big BiologyMarch 3, 2022people, genes, genetics, phenotype, populations, book, polygenic, snps, plasticity, outcomes, study, human, thinking, terms, human behavior, psychologists, question, biology, norm, evolutionary biologists

Ep 56: Bee kind: The buzz on global insect declines (with Dave Goulson)

Big BiologyJanuary 28, 2021insects, bumblebees, bees, honeybees, species, declines, pollinators, people, monitoring, world, flowers, trapping, big, neonicotinoids, crops, farmers, diseases, pollinating, gardens, years

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