This Week in Evolution
Hosted by Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello · Vincent Racaniello
4.8from 213 ratings
- 129
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 213
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 21M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Evolution
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.
- Publisher
- Vincent Racaniello
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Dec 2015
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 129 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiEVO 130: The Stickleback Shuffle
31 Aug 2026
TWiEVO 129: How avocados do it
23 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiEVO 128: Ready, set, cell
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TWiEVO 130: The Stickleback Shuffle
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So you have these marine forms that as, you know, over the tracing back to 10,000, 12,000 years ago in the retreat of the glaciers. As the glaciers were melting in that time frame, a lot of these marine forms moving independently as populations of stickleback fish were to freshwater locations. And sort of the consequences of that have meant all of these almost like natural experiments that have happened with decades of work trying to understand that. And then here, the really cool, in some ways I'd say unique, bridge from ecology to model system is the work of a number of labs, Katie Peichel's in particular, I'm thinking about David Kingsley, Dolph Schroeder up in Vancouver, UBC, who have connected, so from the Schroeder lab, for example, have connected some of this work to EvoDevo, evolutionary developmental biology. […]
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- YouTube views
- 20,790,245
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 170 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 43 ratings
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- 53
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 97
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