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 91: How stealth organs make super soldier ants (with Rajee Rajakumar)
Big Biologyants, phenotypes, soldiers, development, tissue, colony, species, plasticity, workers, morphology, cast, super soldier, developmental, army ants, cells, wing, called, head, organism, rudimentary
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 89: How one gene determines the fate of a food web (with Matt Barbour)
Big Biologygenes, keystone, plant, aphids, variation, allele, species, effects, insects, system, community, starting, thinking, genetic variation, influence, population, experiment, maintained, context, chemical compounds
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 86: What the flux? The evolution of oxygen cascades (with Graham Scott)
Little Biology: Zombie Parasites
Ep 85: The rise of the mammals and fall of the dinosaurs (with Steve Brusatte)
Ep 84: Fractals in the Foliage (with Van Savage)
Ep 83: The Amazon in Us (with Corrie Moreau)
Ep 82: Organisms are not Machines (with Dan Nicholson)
Ep 81: How Staying Cool Blunts Evolution (with Martha Muñoz)
Ep 80: Human-wildlife conflict in a changing world (with Briana Abrahms)
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 78: The amphibian omnivore’s dilemma: Plasticity-led evolution in spadefoot tadpoles (with David Pfennig and Nick Levis)
Ep 77: A (Very) Short Interview with Henry Gee: 4 Billion Years in 30 Minutes (with Henry Gee)
Ep 76: Beasty beats: The origins of musicality (with Henkjan Honing)
Ep 75: Hidden network: The evolutionary relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants (with Toby Kiers)
Big Biologynetworks, fungi, fungal, plants, phosphorus, nitrogen, fungus, host, resources, nutrients, genotypes, called, soil, trade, system, evolve, form, root, legumes, cooperation
Ep 74: Food for thought: Plant domestication and the promise of green super rice (with Michael Purugganan)
