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What is mutation bias and how can scientists study it? How does changing a population’s mutation bias influence its evolutionary trajectory?
In this episode, we talk with Deepa Agashe, an Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India. We first talk with...
Published 05/02/24
This week on Big Biology we're sharing an episode from The Naked Scientists Podcast about how humans lost their tails.
Humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans do not have tails. It sets us apart from other primates, but suggests that our shared evolutionary ancestors had them. So why did we...
Published 04/18/24