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Big Biology

Big Biology


Big Biology

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155 episodes
Language:
English
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Podcast

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The biggest biology podcast for the biggest science and biology fans. Featuring in-depth discussions with scientists tackling the biggest questions in evolution, genetics, ecology, climate, neuroscience, diseases, the origins of life, psychology and more. If it's biological, groundbreaking, philosophical or mysterious you'll find it here. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigbiology/support
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 155 episodes

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Shifting mutational landscapes (Ep 120)

What is mutation bias and how can scientists study it? How does changing a population’s...

64 minutes
May 02, 2024

Big Biology Presents: The Naked Scientists Podcast

This week on Big Biology we're sharing an episode from The Naked Scientists Podcast abo...

5 minutes
Apr 18, 2024

Biology as its own metaphor (Ep 119)

At what levels does causation happen in biology? Are metaphors useful for understanding...

73 minutes
Apr 04, 2024

Dog in the Machine (Ep 118)

How should biologists deal with the massive amounts of population genetic data that are...

46 minutes
Mar 21, 2024

The time of your life (Ep 117)

How should we study complex biological networks? How do cells keep time and stay in syn...

57 minutes
Mar 07, 2024

Rewilding biology (Ep 116)

How do biologists strike a productive balance between descriptive natural history and m...

67 minutes
Feb 22, 2024

Does a porpoise have a purpose? Agency and goals in evolution (Ep 115)

What is an agent, and does an organism have to be conscious to be one? How does organis...

69 minutes
Feb 08, 2024

Follow the data: the search for COVID’s origin (Ep 105)

On this episode, we talk with Alina Chan, postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Har...

85 minutes
Feb 02, 2024

Cooperation versus conflict and the path to multicellularity (Ep 107)

How can we reconcile the evolutionary problem of cooperation? What can social amoebae t...

71 minutes
Feb 02, 2024

How power explains the history of life (Ep 114)

If the tape of life were replayed, how recognizable would today’s species and ecosystem...

57 minutes
Jan 25, 2024