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Episode publication activity over the past year
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Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textToday on the BioAudio podcast, it's all about dating! (no not that kind). Have you ever wondered how we figure out when things happene...
What is a phylogeny for?
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode I"m joined by Bahar Roohshad, an undergraduate student from one of my classes to talk about phylogenetics. What are th...
Biodiversity and Insect Declines
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWe keep hearing that biodiversity is in decline. But what does this mean? How is biodiversity distributed and what does "decline"...
Beaver, Otters and Wolves: Ecosystem Engineers and Trophic Cascades
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textToday on the BioAudio podcast Prof Alex Mills returns to talk about how we recognize and describe an "ecological community" and t...
Disease Ecology: Parasites in Community Ecology
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThis week on the BioAudio podcast we are talking about disease ecology with Prof Dan Becker. It's a field that combines mathematical m...
Natural vs Sexual Selection: Darwin's two great ideas
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode of the BioAudio podcast we revisit Natural Selection and Sexual Selection. I am joined by Professor Alex Mills and we are g...
The Tangled Bank: Evolution and Species Interactions
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode Prof. Gordon Fitch explains the ways that individuals from two different species can interact in the wild, and the evolutio...
How to read a scientific paper
14 Feb 2024
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Send a textIn this episode Prof. Erin Fraser joins me for part two of our introduction to primary scientific literature. This time... did you know mos...
What is scientific literature?
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textToday in the BioAudio podcast part one of a two part session on scientific literature. Today Prof. Erin Fraser joins me to talk about what ...
Reproductive isolating barriers and modes of speciation
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode of the BioAudio podcast I'm joined by Christian Nakla, a former student in my senior evolution class, someone who alwa...
What's a species? How do we define biological diversity
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWhat is a species? A simple question that just about anyone can answer, and yet has been the source of endless debate for decades. Biolog...
Darwin's evidence for natural selection - an Encore Presentation
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThis is an encore presentation of the third episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. I am re-posting the first three episodes form season 1 ...
Charles Darwin: the making of a scientific theory - an Encore Presentation
12 Jan 2024
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Send a textThis is an encore presentation of the second episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. Season 2 is an introduction of Evolution and Ecology. ...
Season 2 Introduction
06 Jan 2024
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Send a textAn introduction to season two of the BioAudio podcast. Welcome.
Evolution before Darwin - an Encore Presentation
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThis is an encore presentation of the first episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. Season 2 is an introduction of Evolution and Ecology. S...
Evolution inspires technology - of bird legs and heat pumps
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn the final episode of this season of the BioAudio podcast we talk about counter current exchange - a low energy system used by birds, fis...
Evolutionary Medicine: rethinking why we get sick
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode of the BioAudio podcast we take a look at the emerging field of evolutionary medicine. This discipline asks not "how s...
Hybridization - when species mix
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode of the BioAudio podcast Prof. Eryn McFarlane and I discuss the role of hybridization in evolutionary ecology, what they are...
Conservation genetics: how to use molecular tools in management
09 Nov 2023
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Send a textIn this episode of the BioAudio podcast Professor Christina Davy and I discuss (and sometimes debate) the role of genetic tools in applied ...
What's a species, the strange case of the salamanders
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThe Ambsystoma salamanders of the great lakes region have the most peculiar mating system.. they are all females, but they steal the genome...
The genetics and rapid evolution of invasive species
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWhat makes a species invasive? Today on the BioAudio podcast my guest is Dr. Thais Bernos who is an expert in the genetics and genomics of ...
Transposable Elements: half your genome, hardly understood
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textDid you know that about half your genome is made of small bits of DNA called transposable elements? These "genomic parasites" are...
The RNA world hypothesis and the origin of life
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textAfter many episodes about evolution, you might wonder... how did this all get going? Where did life come from? How did life itself start? I...
Life Histories and Alternative Reproductive Tactics
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode Prof. Charlyn Partridge and I talk about the evolution of reproductive tactics in sunfishes.Â
Evolution of the Genome
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWe normally talk about evolution of species - and the genome as a sort of inert and hardly changing thing... but the reality is quite diffe...
How to read a scientific paper Part 2: Co-evolution of bats and pitcher plants
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThis is part 2 of a two part lesson on how to read a scientific paper. In part 1 Prof Joanna Coleman and I talked about the parts of a sci...
How to read a scientific paper Part 1: Co-evolution
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIf you are a university professor - how often do you ask your class to read a paper... and how often do you actually explain how they shoul...
Cooperation, altruism and kin selection
16 Aug 2023
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Send a text On this episode of BioAudio, Prof. Gerry Carter and I talk about the complexity of understanding the evolution of cooperation in animals g...
Mate Choice, Parental Investment, Competition and Sexual Selection
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode Prof. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph and I discuss how sexual selection explains the evolution of traits that see...
Types of selection
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode of the BioAudio podcast I talk to 3rd year undergraduate student Ghazal Hooshyar and she's going to explain to me what...
Darwin's evidence for natural selection
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textDr. Dave Hone from Queen Mary University of London returns to talk about what evidence Darwin presented to argue for Natural Selection as t...
Charles Darwin: the making of a scientific theory
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode Dr. Dave Hone from Queen Mary University of London joins me to talk about the life of Charles Darwin and how he developed n...
Evolution before Darwin
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn our first full episode Dr. Mark Vicari and I look at the sorts of discussions about evolution that happened before Charles Darwin came a...
Trailer: Welcome to BioAudio the teaching podcast
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textTrailer - where I explain just what it is I'm doing!Welcome to the BioAudio Podcast. I'm Professor Elizabeth Clare a biologist wh...