Ep 111: Evolution of the Invaders (with Ruth Hufbauer)
Ep 110: Tempest in a barcode: how rapidly can we (and should we) identify new species? (with Michael Sharkey)
Ep 109: Nothing in biology makes sense except through time (with Kevin Mitchell)
Big Biologyorganism, system, agency, sense, freewill, cells, behavior, control, brain, idea, animals, determinism
Ep 108: The dialectical biologists: challenges of studying evolution in nature (with Erik Svensson)
Ep 107: Cooperation versus conflict and the path to multicellularity (with Joan Strassmann and David Queller)
Ep 106: Long-term experimental evolution in the wild (with Katie Peichel and Andrew Hendry)
Ep 105: Follow the data: the search for COVID’s origin (with Alina Chan)
Little Biology: Why can’t I regrow my arm?
Ep 104: Sleeping Beauties: The mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (with Andreas Wagner)
Big Biologymetabolism, metaphors, genes, talk, enzymes, organism, grasses, latent potential, lineages, evolve, promiscuity, latent, produce, genomes, ability, idea, traits, evolution, book, studied
Ep 103: Pest-o, change-o: how culture shapes our view of animal commensals (with Bethany Brookshire)
Big Biologypests, rats, animals, elephants, mice, cats, pigeons, species, writing, kevin, new zealand, sparrows, book, bethany, birds, love, bees, maori, big, humans
Ep 102: Inherency in evolution (with Stuart Newman)
Ep 101: NEON: The promises and challenges of large-scale ecological research (with Scott Collins and Alan Knapp)
Ep 100: A retrospective on agency
Ep 99: Creativity and passion in science communication (with Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher)
Ep 98: There’s a thousand genes for that! (with Nick Barton)
Ep 97: Mutation bias in evolution: climbing Mount Probable (with Arlin Stoltzfus)
Ep 96: The network motifs that run the world (with Uri Alon)
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 94: Synthesizing life on the planet (with John Glass)
Big Biologygenes, cell, organism, mycoplasma, genome, protein, life, synthetic, called, bacteria, minimal, whittle, divides, coli, lab, build, function, biology, put, synthesize
Ep 93: Assembling life in the universe (with Sara Walker)