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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 89: How one gene determines the fate of a food web (with Matt Barbour)

Big BiologyOctober 6, 2022genes, keystone, plant, aphids, variation, allele, species, effects, insects, system, community, starting, thinking, genetic variation, influence, population, experiment, maintained, context, chemical compounds

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