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This Week in Evolution

Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Evolution is a podcast on the biology of what makes us tick. Hosts Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello take you through the new evolution that has been revolutionized by the field of genomics and molecular biology.

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100 episodes

  1. TWiEVO 131: Growing Your Genetic Vocabulary 1:14:38
  2. TWiEVO 130: The Stickleback Shuffle 1:14:17
  3. TWiEVO 129: How avocados do it 1:27:12
  4. TWiEVO 128: Ready, set, cell 1:18:17
  5. TWiEVO 127: The barley knew what to mildew 1:16:42
  6. TWiEVO 126: Beyond Inheritance with Roxanne Khamsi 1:27:33
  7. TWiEVO 125: Evolution's egg timer 52:59
  8. TWiEVO 124: The little ribozyme that could 1:18:15
  9. TWiEVO 123: Stinkbug eggs with a schmear of fungus 1:21:37
  10. TWiEVO 122: The evolution of selfishness 1:15:21
  11. TWiEVO 121: AI imagines viruses 1:42:23
  12. TWiEVO 120: Sparkle pony 1:46:18
  13. TWiEVO 119: Drive fast, take chances, and encode a Y chromosome 1:21:15
  14. TWiEVO 118: Mother of an unrelated brother 1:49:08
  15. TWiEVO 117: Genes that don't leave 1:38:13
  16. TWiEVO 116: An ant and two fungi walk into a bar and meet a naked mole rat 57:23
  17. TWiEVO 115: Even the archaea are going viral 1:28:58
  18. TWiEVO 114: The best experiments ever done 1:31:54
  19. TWiEVO 113: A wolf in wolf's clothing 1:27:05
  20. TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods 1:27:25
  21. TWiEVO 111: Copy that, genome 1:26:51
  22. TWiEVO 110: Ants go from carpenters to surgeons 1:23:57
  23. TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange 1:16:01
  24. TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite 1:18:42
  25. TWiEVO 107: One small step for cells, one giant step for cell kind 1:32:29
  26. TWiEVO 106: What's old immunity is new again 1:28:49
  27. TWiEVO 105: Not every rose has its thorn 1:31:09
  28. TWiEVO 104: Wooly mammoth prosciutto 1:17:37
  29. TWiEVO 103: Change the world by duplicating yourself 1:38:49
  30. TWiEVO 102: Kelp gets some viral help 1:30:04
  31. TWiEVO 101: 99 problems but a tail ain't one 1:34:48
  32. TWiEVO 99: A shocking means to move genes 1:12:44
  33. TWiEVO 100: Spaces that celebrate science 1:31:24
  34. TWiEVO 98: The worms strike back! 1:19:54
  35. TWiEVO 97: Germs trapping worms 1:17:27
  36. TWiEVO 96: Going bananas over the origins of corn 1:29:20
  37. TWiEVO 95: Watering the viruses until they bloom 1:01:30
  38. TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad 1:37:03
  39. TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria 1:30:29
  40. TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar 1:35:42
  41. TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins 1:31:50
  42. TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies 1:27:40
  43. TWiEVO 89: On the outer rim of tumor evolution 1:40:58
  44. TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl 1:15:55
  45. TWiEVO 87: Nathan Clark's revolutionary hair care advice 1:34:03
  46. TWiEVO 86: Pulling out the stops in genetic code evolution 1:45:15
  47. TWiEVO 85: Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks 1:37:16
  48. TWiEVO 84: Decoding our defenses to the Black Death 1:31:42
  49. TWiEVO 83: Evolution spreads its wings (and then loses them) 1:32:20
  50. TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain 1:32:27