This Week in Evolution
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This Week in Evolution

by 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.

100 episodes
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1
The little ribozyme that could
1:18:15 Mar 19, 2026
2
Stinkbug eggs with a schmear of fungus
1:21:37 Mar 19, 2026
3
The evolution of selfishness
1:15:21 Feb 2, 2026
4
AI imagines viruses
1:42:23 Jan 8, 2026
5
Sparkle pony
1:46:18 Jan 8, 2026
6
Drive fast, take chances, and encode a Y chromosome
1:21:15 Nov 4, 2025
7
Mother of an unrelated brother
1:49:08 Oct 14, 2025
8
Genes that don't leave
1:38:13 Aug 20, 2025
9
An ant and two fungi walk into a bar and meet a naked mole rat
57:23 Jul 23, 2025
10
Even the archaea are going viral
1:28:58 Jun 18, 2025
11
The best experiments ever done
1:31:54 May 21, 2025
12
A wolf in wolf's clothing
1:27:05 Apr 23, 2025
13
Sex-Z cephalopods
1:27:25 Mar 26, 2025
14
Copy that, genome
1:26:51 Feb 26, 2025
15
Ants go from carpenters to surgeons
1:23:57 Jan 22, 2025
16
On the origins of orange
1:16:01 Dec 31, 2024
17
TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite
1:18:42 Nov 20, 2024
18
One small step for cells, one giant step for cell kind
1:32:29 Oct 30, 2024
19
What's old immunity is new again
1:28:49 Sep 30, 2024
20
Not every rose has its thorn
1:31:09 Sep 30, 2024
21
Wooly mammoth prosciutto
1:17:37 Jul 31, 2024
22
Change the world by duplicating yourself
1:38:49 Jul 9, 2024
23
Kelp gets some viral help
1:30:04 May 9, 2024
24
99 problems but a tail ain't one
1:34:48 May 8, 2024
25
A shocking means to move genes
1:12:44 May 8, 2024
26
Spaces that celebrate science
1:31:24 Mar 10, 2024
27
The worms strike back!
1:19:54 Feb 27, 2024
28
Germs trapping worms
1:17:27 Feb 27, 2024
29
Going bananas over the origins of corn
1:29:20 Dec 26, 2023
30
Watering the viruses until they bloom
1:01:30 Nov 14, 2023
31
A bacteria, a phage, and a selfish element walk into a cryptomonad
1:37:03 Sep 29, 2023
32
Faster than a speeding bacteria
1:30:29 Aug 25, 2023
33
There's algae in the jar
1:35:42 Jul 21, 2023
34
Meet your very distant cousins
1:31:50 Jul 17, 2023
35
The mystery of the mouse mummies
1:27:40 May 12, 2023
36
On the outer rim of tumor evolution
1:40:58 Apr 25, 2023
37
Dog days of evolution in the shadows of Chernobyl
1:15:55 Mar 26, 2023
38
Nathan Clark's revolutionary hair care advice
1:34:03 Feb 21, 2023
39
TWiEVO 86: Pulling out the stops in genetic code evolution
1:45:15 Feb 5, 2023
40
Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks
1:37:16 Dec 21, 2022
41
Decoding our defenses to the Black Death
1:31:42 Nov 8, 2022
42
Evolution spreads its wings (and then loses them)
1:32:20 Oct 24, 2022
43
A genetic hack for the human brain
1:32:27 Sep 25, 2022
44
Evolution's new and improved slime molds
1:26:19 Aug 24, 2022
45
Viruses of a feather bottleneck together
1:24:16 Aug 1, 2022
46
When the immune system is away, SARS-CoV-2 will play
1:38:30 Jul 2, 2022
47
The virus daily double
1:21:42 May 26, 2022
48
The mutations of our lives
1:19:24 Apr 26, 2022
49
One-step symbiosis
1:25:43 Mar 22, 2022
50
Even the BANAL coronaviruses are interesting
1:38:01 Feb 24, 2022
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