This Week in Evolution
By Vincent Racaniello
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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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TWiEVO 125: Evolution's egg timer
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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TWiEVO 124: The little ribozyme that could
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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TWiEVO 123: Stinkbug eggs with a schmear of fungus
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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TWiEVO 122: The evolution of selfishness
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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TWiEVO 121: AI imagines viruses
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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TWiEVO 120: Sparkle pony
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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TWiEVO 119: Drive fast, take chances, and encode a Y chromosome
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 118: Mother of an unrelated brother
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 117: Genes that don't leave
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 116: An ant and two fungi walk into a bar and meet a naked mole rat
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 115: Even the archaea are going viral
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 114: The best experiments ever done
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May 21, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 113: A wolf in wolf's clothing
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 111: Copy that, genome
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 110: Ants go from carpenters to surgeons
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 107: One small step for cells, one giant step for cell kind
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 106: What's old immunity is new again
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 105: Not every rose has its thorn
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 104: Wooly mammoth prosciutto
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 103: Change the world by duplicating yourself
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 102: Kelp gets some viral help
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May 09, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 101: 99 problems but a tail ain't one
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May 08, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 99: A shocking means to move genes
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May 08, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 100: Spaces that celebrate science
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 98: The worms strike back!
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 97: Germs trapping worms
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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TWiEVO 96: Going bananas over the origins of corn
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 95: Watering the viruses until they bloom
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 94: A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies
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May 12, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 89: On the outer rim of tumor evolution
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 88: Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 87: Nathan Clark's revolutionary hair care advice
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 86: Pulling out the stops in genetic code evolution
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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TWiEVO 85: Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 84: Decoding our defenses to the Black Death
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 83: Evolution spreads its wings (and then loses them)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 81: Evolution's new and improved slime molds
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 80: Viruses of a feather bottleneck together
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 79: When the immune system is away, SARS-CoV-2 will play
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 78: The virus daily double
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May 26, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 77: The mutations of our lives
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 76: One-step symbiosis
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 75: Even the BANAL coronaviruses are interesting
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 74: On racism, not race with Joe Graves
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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TWiEVO 73: With a little help from your hosts
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 72: Echoes of evolution both shallow and deep
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 71: Faster than a speeding coronavirus
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 70: On Life's Edge with Carl Zimmer
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 69: Swimming in SARS-CoV-2 sequences
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 68: Stepping through time with SARS-CoV-2
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May 29, 2021 |
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TWiVEO 67: Corona chameleon
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 66: SARS-2-mouse
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 65: Variants in the mist
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 64: Seeing the lineages for the variants
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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TWiEVO 63: Year of the coronavirus
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 62: Army ants with Daniel Kronauer
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 61: Shot and chaser of SARS-CoV-2 evolution
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 60: Five years of TWiEVO on the future of our past
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 59: The hypothesis giving tree
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 58: Not all coronaviruses ACE2 the test
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 57: SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding evolution blooms
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 56: Revising the drafts of coronavirus evolution
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May 20, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 55: Coronavirus evolution from soup to nuts
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May 06, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 54: Rough drafts of SARS-CoV-2 science
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 53: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV, part II
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 52: Virus evolution by land and by sea and by CoV
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 51: The starting point paradox
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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TWiEVO 50: I'm dreaming of a Y chromosome
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 49: A giant podcast on giant viruses
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 48: Flipping out with choanos on caffeine
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 47: On the origin of beer species
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 46: Can an old tumor teach us new tricks?
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Aug 31, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 45: Microbial secrets of mouse-ear cress
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 44: The enemy of my enemy is my phage
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 43: Social evolution with a side of shrimp
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May 25, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 42: Who's who in your genome
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 41: Where do baby genes come from?
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 40: Eau de bee
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 39: In a Legionella of their own
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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TWiEVO 38: Evolving to evolve
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 37: A tangled tree on the Quammens
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 36: All's not quiet on the telomeric front
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 35: Strawberry sex chromosomes forever
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 34: You don't know what you've got 'til it's PON
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 33: Fly by virus
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 32: Never not neutral
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 31: Virus archaeology, or when the human genome is the junk
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May 19, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 30: Driving Miss Maize-y
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Apr 21, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 29: Evolution on the wing
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 28: Genetics of skin pigmentation in Africa
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 27: Coldevo
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Jan 13, 2018 |
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TWiEVO 26: My Scientist Vinny
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Dec 07, 2017 |