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Biology and Evolution
Interviews with biologists and evolutionary scientists about their new books.
April 11, 2026
Sex Isn't Real
In Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary (Duke UP, 2026), Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define s…
April 10, 2026
A Drive to Survive
The cybernetic tradition in cognitive science analyzes the purposive behavior of many complex systems – from sensory-guided missiles to sensory-guided…
April 6, 2026
The Origins of the New
The Origins of the New (Princeton University Press, 2026) presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this gro…
February 24, 2026
The Unreasonable Likelihood of Being
In this episode we discuss the paper "The Unreasonable Likelihood of Being: Origin of Life, Terraforming, and AI" (arXiv, 2025) with Robert Endres. P…
February 22, 2026
Spoiled
Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the populat…
February 10, 2026
The Units of Life
While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for distinguish…
February 10, 2026
Darwin in the Jewish Imagination
In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Professor Daniel Langton, author of Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolutiona…
February 8, 2026
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History
A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? “How many creatures walking on this earth / Have th…
January 30, 2026
The Tree of Life
Are humans really fish? Why are we the only animals with chins? How much of our DNA do we share with the trillions of bacteria in our bodies? For cent…
January 28, 2026
Technologies of Kinship
Delving into the complex interplay of race, kinship, and technology, Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family (N…
January 20, 2026
The Organism Is a Theory
A bold reimagining of life that bridges science, philosophy, cybernetics, and the complexities of biological existence The Organism Is a Theory: Gius…
January 18, 2026
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without…
January 13, 2026
Feminism in the Wild
In Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior (MIT Press, 2025), Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer reveal how sci…
January 7, 2026
The Arrival of the Fittest
The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935 by Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out …
January 1, 2026
Free Agents
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As w…
December 30, 2025
Period
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once…
December 16, 2025
The Genius Bat
With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats …
December 11, 2025
Living Night
When the sun sets, things start to get interesting among wild animals. Wherever we live, whether in the city or suburbs or country, darkness conjures …
November 23, 2025
Plastic Matter
Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we bre…
November 20, 2025
Horses
In 2016, Ludovic Orlando, a genetics researcher, embarked on the Pegasus Project, an ambitious endeavor to use genetics to discover the origin of the …