Welcome to Big Biology, the podcast that tells the stories of scientists tackling some of the biggest unanswered questions in biology today. Check out our episodes below, and be sure to follow and support us!

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 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 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