Episode 94 – Social Distortion
This week on the podcast… 00:00:00 – Julia Satlz rejoins Paleopals Ryan, Kelly and Jacob after her enthralling debut in Ep 87 to talk more about her own research and less about messy Hox genes. Her paper on social effects of aggression drive in male fruit flies pushes it way to the front of the [...]
Episode 87 – Hox, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
This week on the podcast… 00:00:00 – Julia Saltz joins the Paleopals Ryan, Patrick, Charlie and Kelly to finally figure out this genetics nonsense. The first part of the conversation focuses, as much as the show ever focuses, on Hox genes. Listen to find out why they’re considered the dinosaurs of genetics. We’re definitely having Julia back, [...]
Episode 86 – No Pain, No Gainesville
This week on the podcast… 00:00:00 – Crocodiles confuse even the best of biologists. Morphology, genetics and taxonomy collide as the Paleopals start the Gainesville show off with the wrong kind of reptile when discussing a new story of crocodile distribution and evolution. 00:14:42 – Patrick got something special for this. Cork special. Charlie continues [...]
Episode 83 – Down Under
This week on the podcast… 00:00:00 – Turns out Australia and Antarctica have more in common than just being giant deserts. A new study in Nature Geoscience reports that Antarctica is stealing Australia’s moisture and it’s all humanity’s fault! C’mon Southern Hemisphere, can’t you guys just all get along? 00:13:35 – This week Patrick is [...]
Episode 82 – Creating Controversy
This week on the podcast… 00:00:00 – Dr. Phil Currie, Professor of Paleontology at the University of Alberta and President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, comes on to alert the Paleopals and more importantly the PaleoPosse about the dangers of bad legislation in Tennessee and elsewhere. 00:10:33 – As an addendum to that discussion [...]
