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#1324 Marlene Zuk - Outsider Animals: Learning from the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives

Oct 26, 2026

Dr. Marlene Zuk is Regents Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota. She focuses on emerging questions in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology. She uses invertebrate systems to study the evolution of mating behavior and secondary sexual characters in natural populations. She seeks to understand how natural and sexual selection pressures shape the behavior, life history, and morphology of animals. She is the author of Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us. More»
#1318 César Marín: Multilevel Selection in Evolutionary Biology

Oct 12, 2026

Dr. César Marín is Full Professor in the School of Sciences at Santo Tomas University, Chile. Since 2022, he is a Guest researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, section Ecology & Evolution, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. His primary research interest is (i) Soil Ecology, studying: Fungal Biodiversity; Fungal Biodiversity in Chile; Mycorrhizal Applications; Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning; Soil Fire Ecology; Soil Chemistry; Root Ecology; South American Mycorrhizas. His second research interest is (ii) Multilevel selection in all sorts of systems, albeit he focuses in plant holobiont-symbiont systems. More»
#1272 Arvid Ågren & Manus Patten: The Paradox of the Organism

Jun 26, 2026

Dr. Arvid Ågren is Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. At the Cleveland Clinic, he is affiliated with the Theory Division at the Lerner Research Institute. He is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. He is the author of The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution. More»
#1264 Steve Stewart-Williams: A Billion Years of Sex Differences

Jun 8, 2026

Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams is Professor of Psychology at University of Nottingham Malaysia. His research revolves around the idea that theories from evolutionary biology can shed light on human psychology. In particular, he’s interested in the evolutionary origins of altruistic behavior and human sex differences. His latest book is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women. More»
#1248 Carles Lalueza-Fox - Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves

May 1, 2026

Dr. Carles Lalueza-Fox is Director of the Natural Science Museum in Barcelona. He participated in the Neanderthal Genome Project and led the first retrieval of the genome of an 8,000-year-old European hunter-gatherer. His latest book is Identity: What DNA Can Tell Us About Ourselves. More»
#1218 Edward Hagen: Is Sex Binary?

Feb 20, 2026

Dr. Edward Hagen is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Washington State University. His research takes an evolutionary approach to non-infectious diseases, with a focus on mental health. More»
#1213 Nathan Lents - The Sexual Evolution: Sex, Gender, and Mating

Feb 9, 2026

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#1211 Coleen Murphy - How We Age: The Science of Longevity

Feb 5, 2026

Dr. Coleen Murphy is James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences, and Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. She is the author of How We Age: The Science of Longevity. More»
#1179 Jaap de Roode - Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves

Nov 21, 2025

Dr. Jaap de Roode is Samuel C. Dobbs Professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University. He studies the ecology and evolution of parasites and their hosts, and is interested in co-infections of different parasite species, self-medication in hosts, and local coevolution of hosts and parasites. One of his main interests is the evolution of parasite virulence (i.e. parasite-induced reductions of host fitness). He is the author of Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves. More»
#1178 Karen Lloyd - Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth

Nov 20, 2025

Dr. Karen Lloyd is the Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in leading publications such as Nature and Science. She is the author of Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth. More»