BioAudio
by Elizabeth Clare
Latest episode
Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past
Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past
About this podcast
Welcome to BioAudio: The Teaching Podcast. After many years teaching biology in universities in the UK and in Canada I've come to the conclusion that we can do better than text books. I always want something more flexible, that can be updated with new topics and new discoveries. After years avoiding textbooks… I've created BioAudio a collection of discussions to accompany lectures in university biology courses . So let's ditch the textbook and just listen.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 34 episodes
- Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 13Send a text Today on the BioAudio podcast, it's all about dating! (no not that kind). Have you ever wondered how we figure out when things happened way in the past? When a…
- What is a phylogeny for? · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 13Send a text In this episode I"m joined by Bahar Roohshad, an undergraduate student from one of my classes to talk about phylogenetics. What are they? what are they for and how…
- Biodiversity and Insect Declines · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 13Send a text We keep hearing that biodiversity is in decline. But what does this mean? How is biodiversity distributed and what does "decline" look like? In this episode PhD…
- Beaver, Otters and Wolves: Ecosystem Engineers and Trophic Cascades · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 12Send a text Today on the BioAudio podcast Prof Alex Mills returns to talk about how we recognize and describe an "ecological community" and the unique roll of keystone species…
- Disease Ecology: Parasites in Community Ecology · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 11Send a text This week on the BioAudio podcast we are talking about disease ecology with Prof Dan Becker. It's a field that combines mathematical modeling, ecology, evolution…
- Natural vs Sexual Selection: Darwin's two great ideas · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 10Send a text In this episode of the BioAudio podcast we revisit Natural Selection and Sexual Selection. I am joined by Professor Alex Mills and we are going to compare and…
- The Tangled Bank: Evolution and Species Interactions · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 9Send a text In this episode Prof. Gordon Fitch explains the ways that individuals from two different species can interact in the wild, and the evolutionary consequences of this…
- How to read a scientific paper · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 8Send a text In this episode Prof. Erin Fraser joins me for part two of our introduction to primary scientific literature. This time... did you know most of us don't read these…
- What is scientific literature? · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 7Send a text Today in the BioAudio podcast part one of a two part session on scientific literature. Today Prof. Erin Fraser joins me to talk about what we mean by "primary…
- Reproductive isolating barriers and modes of speciation · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 6Send a text In this episode of the BioAudio podcast I'm joined by Christian Nakla, a former student in my senior evolution class, someone who always had a good question for me…
- What's a species? How do we define biological diversity · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 5Send a text What is a species? A simple question that just about anyone can answer, and yet has been the source of endless debate for decades. Biological diversity just doesn't…
- Darwin's evidence for natural selection - an Encore Presentation · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 4Send a text This is an encore presentation of the third episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. I am re-posting the first three episodes form season 1 because they also set the…
- Charles Darwin: the making of a scientific theory - an Encore Presentation · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 3Send a text This is an encore presentation of the second episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. Season 2 is an introduction of Evolution and Ecology. So before we get into new…
- Season 2 Introduction · 1 min · Season 2 Episode 1Send a text An introduction to season two of the BioAudio podcast. Welcome.
- Evolution before Darwin - an Encore Presentation · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 2Send a text This is an encore presentation of the first episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. Season 2 is an introduction of Evolution and Ecology. So we will start with an…
- Evolution inspires technology - of bird legs and heat pumps · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 20Send a text In the final episode of this season of the BioAudio podcast we talk about counter current exchange - a low energy system used by birds, fish, diving mammals etc. to…
- Evolutionary Medicine: rethinking why we get sick · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 19Send a text In this episode of the BioAudio podcast we take a look at the emerging field of evolutionary medicine. This discipline asks not "how should we cure X?" but "why are…
- Hybridization - when species mix · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 18Send a text In this episode of the BioAudio podcast Prof. Eryn McFarlane and I discuss the role of hybridization in evolutionary ecology, what they are, how they persist and what…
- Conservation genetics: how to use molecular tools in management · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 17Send a text In this episode of the BioAudio podcast Professor Christina Davy and I discuss (and sometimes debate) the role of genetic tools in applied conservation. We will talk…
- What's a species, the strange case of the salamanders · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 16Send a text The Ambsystoma salamanders of the great lakes region have the most peculiar mating system.. they are all females, but they steal the genomes from other related…
