Ep 95: Why are we like this? (with Tina Lasisi)
Big Biologyhair, 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 Biologydeep 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 Biologygenes, 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 Biologymisinformation, 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 Biologymodel 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 Biologypeople, 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 Biologyinsects, 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 Biologyhomo, 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 Biologyhomo, 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 Biologyhomo, 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 Biologyhomo, 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 Biologyhomo, 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 Biologypeople, evolutionary, emotions, anxiety, genes, depression, psychiatry, person, disorders, find, evolution, called, thinking, question, problem, life, evolutionary biology, medicine, kinds, natural selection