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This Week in Evolution

Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Evolution is a podcast on the biology behind what makes us tick.

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Listen to This Week in Evolution, a Science & Medicine podcast by Vincent Racaniello. Stream 101 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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TWiEVO 125: Evolution's egg timer

Nels and Vincent discuss the development of a comprehensive transcriptomic atlas of early embryogenesis from 61 animal species to understand...

52:59Apr 26, 2026

TWiEVO 124: The little ribozyme that could

Nels and Vincent discuss the discovery of a short RNA with the ability to catalyze its own synthesis. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniell...

01:18:15Mar 19, 2026

TWiEVO 122: The evolution of selfishness

Nels and Vincent explain how selfishness evolved multiple times from an essential tRNA synthetase gene in a nematode. Hosts: Nels Elde and V...

01:15:21Feb 2, 2026

TWiEVO 121: AI imagines viruses

Nels and Vincent examines the use of AI and genome language models to design novel derivatives of bacteriophage phiX174. Hosts: Nels Elde an...

01:42:23Jan 8, 2026

TWiEVO 120: Sparkle pony

Nels and Vincent explain research which shows that insertion of a retrovirus into the genome regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish...

01:46:18Jan 8, 2026

TWiEVO 118: Mother of an unrelated brother

Nels and Vincent discuss research which shows a shift from the rule that living organisms produce same-species offspring: an ant that produc...

01:49:08Oct 14, 2025

TWiEVO 117: Genes that don't leave

Nels and Vincent discuss research on hidden evolutionary constraints that dictate the retention of coronavirus accessory gene, which was fla...

01:38:13Aug 20, 2025

TWiEVO 114: The best experiments ever done

Nels and Vincent review the properties of Mendel's pea genes through the lens of modern genetic analysis. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racan...

01:31:54May 21, 2025

TWiEVO 113: A wolf in wolf's clothing

Nels and Vincent explain the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Appl...

01:27:05Apr 23, 2025

TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods

Nels and Vincent explain the ancient evolutionary origin of sex in cephalopods. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Ap...

01:27:25Mar 26, 2025

TWiEVO 111: Copy that, genome

Nels and Vincent explain how template switching during DNA replication is a widespread source of adaptive gene amplification. Hosts: Nels El...

01:26:51Feb 26, 2025

TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange

Nels and Vincent discuss the molecular and genetic origins of sex-linked orange coat color in cats. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello...

01:16:01Dec 31, 2024

TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite

Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a div...

01:18:42Nov 20, 2024