A weekly science show where we talk about some of the latest ecology and evolution research, and meet the researchers behind it.
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Welcome to Episode 26 of Slightly Evolved! This week our guest is Dr Luisa Orsini, lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.Luisa talks to us about her work on Daphnia, a fascinating system where you able to "resurrect" dormant individuals that are sometimes 100s of years old. We talk about how you can use the system to test for recent adaptati…
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Welcome to Episode 25 of Slightly Evolved! This week we talk to Dr Mark Ravinet, a researcher at the University of Oslo. Mark takes us on a journey from his roots as a geographer to working on one of the most hotly debated topics in evolutionary biology: speciation. We discuss a recent targeted review he was the lead author of "Interpreting the gen…
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